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“Watch it!” the cabbie yelled at me.
I leaned back in my seat. What am I going to tell her? Temptation and opportunity were different than action. But she didn’t want to hear that. It depended on what she already knew about me. I could skirt around the truth. It was one of my specialties. I stared out my window at the passing buildings. We were getting close.
Chapter Twenty-Two
Bee
Marie and Kendra were staring at me.
I turned away from them and looked down at Carter’s phone. He had eight missed calls from Mason. I put the phone down on the coffee table. Why did Mason even care about clearing the air with me? He was a rich, eligible, sexy bachelor. He could have any woman that he wanted. Just not me. I tried to think about what Patrick had said. Company perks he had called them. Disgusting.
“Bee, I had no idea.” Marie sat down across from me. “If I had known, I obviously wouldn’t have set you up with him.”
“I know.” I looked down at my lap. “He said he was coming over. I can’t see him.”
“I’ll take care of him,” Kendra said.
“You never really told me that much about what happened with Patrick. I didn’t even know that his boss’ son was taking him to strip clubs,” Marie said.
“Well it’s awkward to talk about. And it wasn’t really strip clubs. Patrick made it seem like his boss’ son was showing him around the city with the other new hires. And that he had all these weird connections. I didn’t realize he was going to underground clubs and stuff. I thought he was seeing the top of the empire state building. But when I eventually realized, Patrick made it seem like you could just tell Mason your fantasy and he’d figure out a way to make it happen. Like he knew every person with weird fetishes in the whole city.”
“Gross.”
“Yeah.”
“I don’t get it though. Mason seems like such a nice guy at work. And he makes a decent salary. I don’t know why he’d be doing that. It doesn’t make any sense. Maybe his father is just a bad guy? Or maybe it’s Max’s other son?”
“It’s definitely Mason. And I don’t know why he did it, but he did. They’re both disgusting.”
“You can’t really blame him for the things that Patrick did though. Just because he introduced Patrick to other women doesn’t mean he made him cheat on you.”
“That’s a fine line.”
“Maybe you should hear him out.”
“I don’t want anything to do with guys like him.”
Kendra cleared her throat.
Marie glanced at Kendra and then back at me. “I need to tell you something, but you have to promise you won’t get mad at me.”
“What?”
“You promise you won’t be mad?”
“I’m not going to get mad at you. Just tell me.”
“Mason is known as a bit of a playboy. I just thought he might help you get over Patrick and I didn’t think…”
“You knew what kind of guy he was?”
“I didn’t know about the underground clubs or any of that. I didn’t even know he knew Patrick.”
“But you knew he was a womanizing asshole?”
“He always seems so nice at work. I thought maybe they were just rumors. And you did have a good time. You blushed when you were talking about him.”
“How could you, Marie?”
