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yourself.” H e chuckled as she sat up and just looked at him, eyes taking in his perfection.
    “I am.” The salty fluid tasted a bit like mango and crackers. How odd.
    “You should be.” With open arms, he beckoned to her, and as she settled against his bare chest she reveled in the incongruity of her entirely clothed body against his utterly naked one. The balance of power was off.
    Kind of fun like this.
    Mike took deep belly breaths, Laura fixated on his navel and watching its rise and fall, the tranquility of the mo ment making her slip into a hypnotic state. If they’d had more time she could have fallen asleep, so peaceful were his breaths.
    “Thank you,” he murmured.
    “You’re welcome.” She crawled up him, sleek and catlike, and planted a kiss on his lips.
    “About tonight,” he added.
    “Oh, don’t you worr y ,” she said in a low, determined voice. “I haven’t forgotten about tonight.”
    And then her ass buzzed.
    Fucking phone. She looked—voicemail message. Josie. Holding up one finger, she walked out of the room, dialing as she went to the bathroom and shut the door.
    “’ lo?”  
    “ Josie?” Thank God. She needed a friend. A voice. An ear. Someone sympathetic and empathetic who could just listen. Let her talk and unwind all the tangled thoughts and feelings that made every part of herself feel so confused.  
    “Who else would it be? You got Joe programmed in your phone next to my name, too? Because if you’re calling for law school advice—”
    “Joe?”
    Josie snorted. “Darla’s been sexting me.”
    “That’s an interesting relationship you have there,” Laura said, coughing.
    “Ha ha. ‘Joe’ and ‘Josie’ are next to each other in the c ontacts list on her phone. I’m ready to change my name to Zandramander at this rate if it gets her to stop.” Josie’s voice went low. “You wouldn’t believe the pictures they take of each other.”
    Laura shuddered, the taste of Mike still sharp in her mouth. She needed to get off the phone, fast. “ What’s up? You never call this time of day unless you have a business question.”
    Half the time Laura forgot that the dating service even existed. Then she felt tremendous guilt, because the venture was backed by money Mike and Dylan readily gave her, expecting nothing in return a n d not really caring whether it generated a profit. The unspoken secret between the three was that the two billion plus change that the men had in trust, and the millions they earned every year in income payout, was more than enough money for Laura to spend as she pleased on whatever she wanted, for Dylan to fund his foundation, and to support Mike’s work at the ski resort.
    In other words—and this was where she cringed, but gritted her teeth and faced the truth—Good Things Come in Threes was just a pet project. It never had to turn a profit. In truth, it could bleed money forever and all would be well.
    “ Just calling to say ‘hi’,” Josie said in a voice so friendly Laura almost started crying. She missed her friend.  
    “ I need to meet for coffee.” Laura said the words before she realized it was exactly what she wanted and needed.  
    “Fake meeting?”
    “Yep. But make sure it doesn’t seem like a fake meeting.”
    “Gotcha. I can’t today, though. How about tomorrow?”  
    Laura did a mental scan. Shit. Tomorrow she had a doctor’s appointment for Jillian and a playgroup. “Can’t tomorrow.”
    “Day after? I’m free,” Josie said.
    Mental scan again. “Yes! I’m free.”
    “S ee you at Jeddy’s. One o’clock. ” Click. That was easy. A little too easy.
    Laura needed easy right now.
    The fact that the company existed at all was its own reward in such a scenario. When you took away the standard economic trappings that the bottom 99.9999999999999 percent of the world assumed to be a permanent, fixed, and universal part of the structure of society, what Laura and Josie were doing with the dating service made