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sweetie," Julia said as she got up. "And I am sorry about the room fiasco last night. Simon didn't tell me that Kim was coming this weekend. They wanted to surprise you."
    "Oh, I'm pretty sure she was surprised," Kim said and kissed Megan on the cheek. "Happy birthday, doll."
    "Sorry about last night. I'm glad you made it." Megan hugged Kim back and then moved on to her other friends. Funny that even now, most of her friends revolved around the three men in her life. Kim worked as the lead designer for her brother's company. Beth was married to Matt, her surrogate brother. And Julia… While she'd like to take credit for fixing her work friend up with her brother, their connection happened months before Megan pushed the issue. They didn't get together much these days. Everyone was busy, so this girls' day at the spa was badly needed.
    "I talked with the desk this morning, and they found me a room. So you two," Kim turned to Julia, "and you two can have the cabins all to yourselves."
    "I feel left out. I didn't get a visit from Kim in the middle of the night," Beth said. She plastered on a false pout and crossed her arms over her swollen, pregnant belly.
    "Trust me, I would have rather skipped the whole thing myself," Kim said. "I work with those guys. There's enough drama in the office. I don't need to be in the middle of their domestic lives, too."
    "Oh, office gossip," Beth said, clapping. "I've been so bored since I went on leave, and it's only been a week. I'm not sure how I'll be able to last six months away. I must live vicariously through you, so tell me everything."
    Julia pulled Megan aside. "Kim told us that you and Peter got in a fight. I almost came over to make sure everything was alright, but Simon insisted that you two could figure it out. So did you?"
    "Don't worry about us," Megan said and headed down the hall to the spa. "It's just how we do things. We fight. We make up."
    "Sure sounds like foreplay to me," Kim said under her breath.
    Beth barely choked back a laugh and elbowed Kim. When Megan turned around to glare at them, they smiled innocently.
    "This isn't healthy," Julia said and touched her shoulder. "If you spent more time talking things out and less time ribbing each other, maybe you wouldn't fight as much."
    "We weren't fighting," she assured Julia, and then she went on for Kim's benefit. "We weren't doing anything else, either. Peter and Matt are my surrogate brothers. But Peter's also my best friend. He knows me too well, and sometimes he doesn't know when to quit."
    "You should have seen the way those two were going at it last night," Kim said. "But it's nothing new. When they aren't fighting, they're inseparable. I'm giving even odds that they are either going to finally kill each other or fuck before the weekend is over. I wish they'd just get it over with. This 'will they, won't they' thing is getting old."
    Megan turned and shot her supposed friend a withering glare. Maybe a girls' day wasn't such a good idea. She could have gone with the guys. They didn't speculate about her personal life, such as it was. "Well, you should just check the 'won't' box. We're friends, nothing else." Not that she wouldn't be open to a change. It just wasn't going to happen. She'd tried to get with Peter a long time ago and he wasn't interested. Keeping things platonic was easier. Or at least safer.
    "Why not?" Kim asked. "If I had a hot, sexy guy like Peter who'd drop everything for me in a heartbeat and fly across the country to hang out, I'd be all over that. Plus, if you were banging him maybe you wouldn't be so uptight right now."
    Deciding to let Kim's last comment go, she checked in at the desk and they were ushered back to the pedicure chairs.
    "So what did happen last night?" Julia asked. "Kim came banging on our door at two in the morning looking for a place to sleep."
    "She used the term manwhore," Kim offered helpfully. "And accused him of trying to sleep with me."
    "Well, in my defense, I didn't know