by Gow, Kailin
I feel almost disappointed as I take the money.
“Maybe you think it ruins the fantasy?” He smiles and kisses my fingers. “I don't. I think money means we can be honest with each other in a way most normal people can only dream of. Because our arrangement is just ours.” He kisses me so deeply, so passionately, that any doubts I have to the sincerity of his desire for me are lost.
“I'm going to take a shower,” he says. “You can have the room as long as you want.”
I watch him go. My body misses his.
I sit for a while, recovering from the pleasure that Mr. X. has given me.
His phone rings again. Instinctively, I reach out for it.
Then I see the name flashing across the screen.
RITA MALONE.
My heart stops.
Rita's alive.
All my feelings vanish in a single instant. I no longer care about Mr. X., about my body, about my pleasure. All I care about is the truth.
For a moment I think I'll grab it, take the number. My hands are shaking.
Then Mr. X. comes back out.
I drop the phone. I'm all smiles.
Who is this man, really? And how many mysteries does he hold?
His body still can take my breath away.
As he dresses – in jeans and a clean white T-shirt – I allow my eyes to linger on his form.
Who are you, Mr. X?
And how can you make me feel this way?
He takes his phone and slips it in his jeans pocket.
I try not to let my disappointment show.
“I'm going to book you again tonight,” he says, kissing me lightly on the lips. “There's so much more I can make you feel.”
The thought makes me dizzy with desire. But the moment he's gone, I'm on my feet – searching his suite, searching for a sign, a clue,
But there's nothing there. No ID, no passport, nothing that gives me any clue to who Mr. X. might really be.
Then I find it. At the bottom of a stack of Yellow Pages in the bottom of his closet, a book unlike all the others.
Advance Medical Studies.
A required medical school textbook.
My fingers are trembling as I open the first page.
Rita Malone.
Beneath it, a doodle. I recognize it well – Rita was prone to drawings. She used to love to sketch, to doodle – to hide hidden messages and codes. She used to make grocery lists like that in our own place – challenging me to figure out what she wanted me to buy. A secret joke between us.
And this is more than just a drawing. It's a series of dots – at first, it looks like domino sides. Ten dominoes. But one of the dominoes has nine dots.
And then I realize.
Ten dominoes. Ten digits in a telephone number.
The first three – a Malibu area code.
Then seven more.
My hands are shaking as I dial the number.
When I hear her voice, it's like my heart stops.
“Hello?”
“Rita?”
There are tears streaming down my face.
She's alive.
*****
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Barely Legal
June 30, 2014
For Laura Turner, helping others had been her way of coping and forgetting a past so painful, she had to hide it from the ones she loved or risk going insane. Helping her best friend Serena Singleton start a new life free from a dark past, made her feel she was helping herself move forward.
Laura, whose family ran in the same circle as billionaire composer Sebastian Sorensen and lived a life many would envy, had secrets of her own, and it had been years since she’d lived free of the same addiction that consumed her friend Serena.
When Laura moved to Los Angeles to work at a law firm who hired her to start even without her passing the bar, she meets the mysterious and sexy Peter Townshend, whose irresistible charm and take charge personality brings out a part of her she had hidden for years. Hidden behind a wall of secrets and giving her his orders, she only has his seductive voice to guide her to do his bidding. He knows all her buttons. He knows all about her.
He knows she’s been a bad girl.
It was no accident she and Serena became best friends. Even good girls fall once in a while. Even good girls have addictions that make them do bad things. Very bad things…
Things that are barely legal…
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