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of paper Chase had given her, and handed it to her sister. Alandra studied the scrawl before refolding the note and giving it back.
    “ What are you going to do?” she asked.
    “ I don’ t know.” Elena released a pent-up breath and shook her head, still racked with indecision.
    “ Do you want me to do it?”
    Elena gave a bark of laughter, then caught the flat look in her sister’ s eyes.
    “ Are you serious?” she asked. “ You’ d do that for me?”
    Alandra shrugged. “ For you, for Pop, for the family business. It wouldn’ t be that much of a hardship. You did say he was cute, right?”
    She hadn’ t, and “ cute” wasn’ t even close to the word she would use to describe Chase Ramsey’ s strong features, fathomless blue eyes and attractive physique.
    “ It’ s not like I have that much going on in the boudoir these days, anyway,” Alandra continued with a small eye roll when Elena didn’ t respond. “ And if this guy just wants to get laid, then he probably won’ t care which sister he’ s with.”
    Elena laughed again, this time in amusement. She threw her arms around Alandra and hugged her tight. “ Oh, Alandra, I love you.”
    “ I love you, too. And I’ m more than willing to take this bullet for you, if you want me to.”
    Elena could just imagine that. The only problem was that when she pictured her sister in bed with Chase instead of herself, she felt a stab of inexplicable jealousy.
    How could that be? How could she be jealous of her own sister, who was willing to sleep with a complete stranger just to save Elena and the family business? And how could she suddenly feel territorial about a man who had made her such a disrespectful offer? Primarily, she suspected, as an act of revenge for what she’ d done to him as a teenager.
    “ No,” she said, drawing a deep, cleansing breath. “ I’ m the one who came up with the idea of going to him in the first place. And I’ m the one with a past relationship with him.”
    “ All right,” Alandra acquiesced, “ then how do you feel about Ramsey’ s offer?”
    Her stomach jumped at the question, followed by a peculiar, almost traitorous warmth that spread through her breasts and between her legs.
    Lord, could she actually be attracted to Chase? On more than simply the detached level of a woman catching a glimpse of a good-looking man.
    Could the attraction go deeper? Could she actually be considering saying yes to his proposition? To becoming his mistress?
    A skittering of nerves joined the heat flowing through her bloodstream. She’ d never been a man’ s mistress before, never been in a relationship based solely on sex. She’ d dated a good number of men, and even slept with a few of them, but those relationships had always moved slowly and been based on other things, like friendship, mutual attraction, similar occupational interests.
    Chase had no interest in getting to know her, and she doubted they had a single thing in common other than her father’ s company. He wanted her for two reasons only— to look good on his arm at business gatherings and to satisfy him in bed.
    And darned if that idea wasn’ t becoming more appealing by the minute.
    Squeezing Alandra’ s fingers, she felt tears prickle at the back of her eyes as she met her sister’ s gaze. “ Is it terrible that I’ m thinking of going through with it? And not entirely to help out Pop?”
    Alandra gave a soft chuckle, pushing a strand of hair back from Elena’ s face and tucking it behind her ear. “ Of course not. You’ re allowed to think a guy is hot and want to roll around with him for a while, with or without ulterior motives. I’ d be more worried if you thought Chase Ramsey was a dog, but were still willing to sacrifice yourself and your body for SRS. The important question, I think, is how you’ ll feel about yourself afterward. Can you chalk it up to one of life’ s many adventures while remaining emotionally detached, or are you going to feel