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the city.   She was too caught up in her problem,
more distracted than she’d ever been by any math problem she’d worked on at
MIT.
    Easton didn’t make anything simple.   He played a very complicated game, and
he set the rules, changing them when it suited him.
    As she walked to a store that she’d read
about online called Cosabella, Kennedy pursed her lips, her brow furrowed, only
half-seeing what was in front of her.  
    How
do you win a game where your opponent makes all the rules? She wondered.
    And then she was opening the door to the
boutique lingerie store, and a beautiful woman with curly dark hair asked her
if she needed assistance.
    “Not right now,” Kennedy said,
smiling.   “I’m browsing for the
moment.”
    “We’ve got plenty to see,” the woman
replied.   “Just let me know if you
need anything.”
    Kennedy thanked her and then proceeded to
look for something suitable for the evening, not knowing if anything would be
necessary at all.   Still, she
thought, it never hurt to be prepared.
    Cosabella was gorgeous inside, clean and
white walls with an array of brilliantly colored lingerie tops and bottoms
hanging in orderly fashion throughout the store, and white mannequins sporting
some of the most fashionable looks.
    Kennedy started considering the
possibilities more earnestly.   Just
how sexy did she want to go?   How
risqué was she to play this evening with Easton?
    Would the two of them go all the
way?   Was she ready to take it there
if he allowed her to call the shots?
    As she stood in front of one particular
purple thong and bra combination, Kennedy pulled her lower lip
absentmindedly.   She thought the bra
would look good on her, but she needed to try it on.
    She picked up the hangers and began
examining them more closely, imagining herself with those undergarments on, and
a little sexy outfit worn over them.   Would she be confident enough to take the reigns in the way that Easton
wanted her to, confident enough to anticipate his needs and desires?
    Someone else had entered the store and
was speaking with the woman who worked there, but Kennedy was too lost in her
own thoughts to pay much attention.   She was still wondering if this was the right combination for her
wardrobe that night.
    A moment later, footsteps approached and
she assumed it was the sales lady.   Turning, she said, “I think I’d like to try these on, please,” and then
was mortified to see Nicole Jameson standing there with a very odd look on her
face.
    “I’m not going to stop you,” Nicole said,
arching an eyebrow.
    Kennedy was totally thunderstruck.   “I—I don’t…what are you doing
here?”
    “I could ask you the same question, but I
won’t,” Nicole said, smirking a little.   “Anyway,” she shrugged, looking around, “this is one of my favorite
stores in the city.   I love this
entire area, there are lovely little shops all along this street.”
    “It is lovely,” Kennedy replied, still
knocked off balance by Nicole having appeared before her eyes like a genie from
a bottle.  
    Nicole seemed to be finding Kennedy’s
discomfort amusing.   “Shouldn’t you
be at work, anyway?”
    “Well…no…ummm…Easton gave me the day
off.”
    And
he told me to meet him at his hotel room tonight .
    “Day off, huh?”   Nicole nodded.   “Lucky you.”
    “I wanted to work.   He said he had nothing for me, I’d
completed everything too quickly.”
    This caused Nicole to laugh, and she
continued laughing until the few other people in the store were staring at
them.
    “Wow, you must be good,” Nicole told
her.   “Really, really good.”
    Kennedy waited for her sister’s laughter
to finally die down.   “Nicole, I
feel like maybe I should go.”
    “Why?”
    “I don’t know, I feel like my presence
upsets you.   Obviously you came here
to shop in peace, I’d like to let you do that.”
    Nicole crossed her arms and thought for a
moment.   “Nonsense,” she said, after
a long