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here to eat, didn’t you?” she accused, a smile on her face.
    I winked at her. “It was either that or cold pizza. Take it as a compliment.”
    She rolled her eyes as she leaned against the doorframe, watching as I walked to my car.
    “Bye, knobface ,” she called out, using one of her pet names for me. I laughed and waved my hand.
    “See you later, twat.”

    For me, home was an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. I’d explained the cost away by saying I had secured it through work on a lease agreement, and nobody had questioned that. Yet.
    I pulled into my parking spot and took the elevator up to the tenth floor.
    My apartment was huge. There was no other way to describe it. Three bedrooms and two bathrooms plus a study seemed a little excessive for one person, but what can I say? It was the only available apartment in the building, and I loved the view. I walked over to the drapes that covered the floor to ceiling windows and opened them. The city lights peppered the darkened sky, stretching for miles off into the distance.
    Fuck, I loved that place.

    I went to my office and checked my schedule for the following week. As usual, I was booked out. I restricted myself to working five days a week—some days with two bookings, depending on who the client was.
    If I knew a client was into domination and her pleasure, I could safely assume my stamina would be fine for another appointment. Surprisingly, some were more focused on making sure I got off rather than themselves, and hell, that was fine with me.
    The next hour I spent checking messages and emails, confirming bookings for the next week, and then organizing the payments I needed to make for Mom’s care. By the time I’d finished all that, I was wrecked and nearly falling asleep at my desk.
    Shutting my laptop, I turned off the lights and headed toward the bedroom, stripping out of my clothes along the way. I flicked on the lamp beside the bed and tossed the pillows to check for spiders—something I’d been doing since that night when I was twelve and a massive spider had crawled across my face. Life was never the same, and a new obsession was born.
    Once I was sure I was alone, I climbed into bed, asleep before my head even hit the pillow.

Chapter Three
    My phone buzzed, waking me up. Not a morning person, I yawned, my hand fumbling around on the night table for my work phone, even though I could see light streaming through the curtains already. It was after eleven—which was still way too early. I read the text message from Brittany, my client for that evening.
    Hi Coop, looking forward to tonight. Just confirming 6:30pm. Brittany xx
    I knew nothing of her, except that she got my details off another client, Amalie. That in itself should’ve made me nervous, especially knowing what Amalie was into—but we’ll get to that later.
    Yawning again, I stretched my naked body between the soft cotton sheets. I didn’t want to get up; my bed was so cozy and warm. Besides, getting up would mean my sleep was over, and I wasn’t ready to commit to that yet.
    My five-minute snooze turned into a two-hour nap. Cursing, I pushed back the covers and stood up. I made my way down to the living room and collapsed on the sofa, not yet fully awake.
    Most of the afternoon was spent lazing around the apartment. This was my only time to relax, and I intended to make the most of it. Almost three in the afternoon and I was still lying on the sofa wearing only my boxers and watching TV.
    I wasn’t a naturally tidy person, and glancing around the place, it showed. Thank god I didn’t bring customers home with me; one look at the dump and they’d run. The apartment was huge, but the amount of junk I had lying around the place made it look tiny and cluttered. Not even the modern classy furniture I’d spent thousands on could save it.
    Getting my ass off the sofa, I made my way down the hall to the bathroom and ran the shower. Stepping out of my boxers, I kicked them