Chapter 204

Jess picked up the bottle of Champagne, which had fallen over and emptied out in our rush to play with Gloria.

"I'm going to get another one of these," she said. "Let's have a drink."

I sat on the chaise recently vacated by Gloria and pulled Kat onto my lap. I was still horny, and I knew I wouldn't be satisfied until I had fucked Kat.

"I saw you," I said quietly, kissing Kat's neck and tasting the lightly salty sweat that was on it.

"Saw me how?" she asked.

"Telling Tommy goodbye," I said.

"It's an act, John," she said. I detected no defensiveness in her voice but noted that she glanced away from me, her eyes looking at the ground. "He pays me really well. But that illusion of intimacy, of being his girlfriend, is what turns him on the most. Tommy is a narcissist. He wants to believe he's god's gift to every woman he's with."

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