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I practically ran away.

The next morning I asked her, “Was I high last night?” It was an honest question.

She pushed her cute glasses up her sexy little nose, and her eyes narrowed at me. “You tell me.”

“No,” I decided out loud. “So we really did watch Jojo Rabbit in the middle of the night and you really did cry like a baby.”

I didn’t get the reaction I was trying for. I’d wanted a blush, some embarrassment, maybe. Instead she raised a brow and said, “Your point?”

I was getting close to meeting a big deadline when I told her to set up an appointment with my masseuse to celebrate.

“She comes here?” she asked as she typed in the information I’d given her.

“Yes.”

“I’ll set it up ASAP.”

I studied her. “You know what? Tell them to send someone for you too.”

“Excuse me?” she asked, looking genuinely confused.

“Have them send a masseuse for you, too. You could use a little loosening up.”

She blushed. “I’m fine.”

She was so stubborn that I set up the whole thing myself, calling the parlor and booking my usual girl and whoever they recommended as their second best for Ro.

I didn’t think it through properly, and I regretted that the second I saw who they sent.

My usual girl was a petite blond named Mary. She was smoking hot but faultlessly professional.

Standing next to her when I opened the door was a big, muscular dude that my mind took way too long to gather was going to be massaging Ro.

It was the least relaxed massage I ever had.

Ro was one room over, getting the same treatment I was with some strange dude touching her body.

At one point I heard her moan through the wall, and I came up off the table ready to fight.

Mary blinked at me, her oiled hands held palm up. “Something the matter?” she asked, looking genuinely confused.

I shook my head like I could shake the pictures out of my head. Pictures of a sweet, innocent, naked Ro with that big burly guy’s hands all over her.

I lay back down on the table and forcibly restrained myself until the very end.

When it was done, they left and I shrugged on my white spa robe and moved quietly to the door.

I peeked into the room that Ro’s massage had been set up in.

She was still lying face down on the table. She’d fallen asleep. At least one of us had had a relaxing experience.

There was a cloth covering only her ass, her back and legs bare.

I approached her. I couldn’t help myself. Her back was lovely and naked and still covered in oil.

I touched her shoulder to shake her awake. In spite of myself, it became a caress.

She mumbled something and moaned.