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Christian, wondering just how long it had been for Shane.
    Christian met her eyes, and ate another fry.
    Cassandra almost laughed. Almost thought he knew exactly what he was doing.
    Shane said, “He pays for gas, he’s given you his car, he pays for room service. I don’t even want to know what you are doing to deserve all this.”
    “You want to know.”
    He leaned forward. “I do, I do. Please tell me.”
    She chuckled, shaking her head.
    Shane said, “I looked when you were in the bathroom and I couldn’t find any rope, no handcuffs, no sex toys.”
    “We can’t keep those things out in the open. Housekeeping is in here everyday.”
    Christian let out a long, loud breath. “Do you two only talk about sex?”
    Cassandra looked at Shane. “Pretty sure we do.”
    “What else is there?”
    Christian closed his eyes. “Movies, books. Current affairs.”
    Cassandra said, “Affairs?”
    Shane said, “You know who’s having an affair–”
    Christian shook his head. “No, no, no. Something else. Anything else.”
    What else was there?
    Cassandra took a long, long sip of her wine. Silently vowed that Shane and/or Christian would pay for this. And said, “So, you mean like. . .Dungeons and Dragons?”

    Brady rode the elevator to the penthouse, wondering if he should have taken a longer drive. The front desk had told him that Cassandra’s guest were still in residence, although they’d left the pool. All of them whole and alive.
    They’d ordered dinner and Brady only briefly wondered if they were eating it on his bed.
    He had a table. But Cassandra liked to eat in bed. Off his chest, occasionally.
    But surely the three of them wouldn’t be eating on his bed.
    Surely.
    He relaxed when he saw them sitting at the table.
    Three heads turned in his direction and Cassandra smiled. She said, “Have you ever played Dungeons and Dragons?”
    He stopped. “No.”
    Cassandra said to Christian, “You’ll have to teach all of us how to play,” and Brady raised his eyebrows.
    Shane shivered and whispered loudly, “He’s going to make you pay for even imagining he’d play a little D&D.”
    Cassandra whispered back, “I know.”
    Shane held a hand to his chest. “And look at me, using the lingo and everything.”
    Cassandra swatted his arm and said, “I know!”
    Shane grinned at her and turned back to Brady. “Come and tell me a little bit about yourself.”
    “Why?”
    Shane whimpered, propping his face on his fist. “Does he ever turn the menace off?”
    “If I say yes, he’ll punish me. So, yes.”
    Brady smiled at her, with his eyes, and headed for a shower.
    When the bathroom door opened, Brady’s hair was full of shampoo and he realized he should have locked the door.
    He said, “That had better be Cassandra.”
    “No. But I won’t peek. Promise.”
    “I’m going to guess you are Shane.”
    “Good guess.”
    Brady paused, remembering Cassandra saying the same thing. Remembering what it was like to be a couple. Not just together, but a couple.
    Shane said, “I wanted to say hello. Meet you. These long glances across a crowded room are just not enough.”
    Brady snorted and rinsed his hair. Shane wanted to mark his territory. He might be gay but he was still a man. And Brady was encroaching.
    “You wanted to make sure I know my place with Cassandra. Behind you.”
    Brady heard rustling, as if Shane was moving items around on the counter, and Shane said, “I do want to make sure you know that. Not to warn you off; just to warn you.”
    “That’s kind of you. But I’m just using her. She’s just using me.”
    “That’s okay. A little mutually beneficial using never hurt anyone. It’s just when one party forgets that it’s just for fun. Cassandra doesn’t normally move in with men she’s known for a few weeks.”
    “I made her an offer she couldn’t refuse.”
    “The car, I know. She also watched me come in here.”
    Brady said, “So you are worried. That I mean more to her than you