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I try to bite it back but, based on her scowl, I’m unsuccessful. “Is that a problem?”

“No.”

“Okay. Well, you seem upset.”

“Not upset,” she grumbles. “Surprised.”

“Because I know what I want?”

“How do you know what you want?”

“Porn,” I say with a shrug.

She sputters, and I lose the straight face I’ve been trying to hold.

“No.” I chuckle, and she pops me in the chest again. “Ow, sorry. I couldn’t resist.”

“Jerk.”

“I’m sorry.” I rub my hands along her hips. “I have to admit though, I do watch porn. Occasionally.”

“Occasionally,” she mimics, and I pinch her sides in retaliation. “Eek. Stop.”

I really should stop because her naked body wiggling against mine will derail our conversation. Again.

“So, there’s that,” I tell her.

“What else?”

“Some of it was my imagination.”

“You have a very vivid imagination.” Her smile creates a warmth that starts in my chest and tingles through my body. “So, porn and imagination? That’s it?”

“Well…”

“Well…what?”

“A couple years ago, Mallory and Bailey invited me to their book club.”

“Your sisters invited you to their book club?”

As kids, we had never been allowed to hang out with them. Anything they did was No Babies Allowed, and Ames and I were the babies.

I nod. “I wasn’t sure what to expect at first. I thought, sure, why not? I like to read.”

“I remember,” she interrupts.

“So, I show up to this first one at Bailey’s apartment, and it’s her, Mal, and three or four others. It wasn’t any old book club though. It was all romance related.”

She giggles, and my entire body tunes to the happy sound.

“I didn’t want Mal to give me shit for only coming to one, so I went a few times.”

“Did you read the books?”

“Fuck, yes, I read them. They were like my own personal training manual.”

“Seriously?” she asks, raising an eyebrow. “Do you still read them?”

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