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I didn’t say that shit though.

“Nothing.”

She narrowed her eyes.

“Everybody got fucking secrets lately.”

That landed harder than she knew.

Because she still didn’t know mine.

Didn’t know why I really started coming around.

Didn’t know what Xay had done seven years ago.

Didn’t know that the first time I looked at my little brother’s wife and decided I wanted to see how far I could push her, it had nothing to do with some unexpected attraction.

That came later.

The beginning?

That shit was revenge.

And standing there looking at her now, I knew eventually I was gonna have to tell her.

Just wasn’t doing that shit tonight.

Sam finished her wine and set the glass down.

“Come here.”

I raised an eyebrow.

“What?”

“You heard me.”

I walked over.

She opened the front of her robe.

I looked down.

Then back at her.

She wrapped her arms around my neck.

“I need one fucking night where I don’t gotta be somebody’s mother, somebody’s daughter, somebody’s betrayed wife, somebody’s sister.”

Her smile disappeared.

“I just wanna be Sam.”

That did something to me.

I put my hands around her waist.

“Then be Sam.”