Chapter 190

"Finishing up soon," she wrote. "Meet at home?"

It was an honest concern that Kat, Jess, and I might drift apart if we allowed ourselves to get too distracted. It would be easy for all of us to fall prey to whatever hedonistic apples fell our way, if we simply grabbed for them as they came along. Our lifestyle might have seemed driven by blind lust, but it required strategy to work long-term.

Jess apparently had the same thought, too. When I got home, she was waiting for me in a loosely tied silk robe and holding an open bottle of Champagne. She greeted me with a warm, soft kiss. Her hair was slightly damp, and she smelled like her floral body wash.

"Your hairdresser wears cheap perfume," Jess said with a wicked smile. "But how was it otherwise?"

"Better than I expected," I said. We kissed between sentences.

"You've always been such a sucker for those coed types," she said.

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