Page 44 of Nothing to Deny

See this was why she came to Roxie. The woman had a way of cutting through the crap, of skewing her perspective to just the right angle, providing the truth of the complete picture.

“What would I do without you? I’m overthinking this, but I’ve never—”

Zairn came striding in, the door fell back into its place behind him.

Roxie stood up. “Excuse me, who do you think you are? You don’t come storming in here. What if we’d been naked?”

“I’ve seen you naked. Many times. All the time. Can’t seem to go ten minutes without it.”

“Because you spend every waking minute drooling over the hidden camera shots you take of me illegally. You think I don’t know? Your obsession is not healthy. I turn a blind eye because you’re so rich, otherwise I’d be out of here like a shot, boy.” These two loved to joke and spar. “And Freya is here, she doesn’t want you seeing her naked.”

“I’ve seen Frey naked too.”

She couldn’t see her friend’s face, but there must’ve been a reaction.

“Ha!” Roxie started. “There’s no way we believe of all the millions of naked women you’ve slobbered on that you remember anything about Freya’s fabulous figure from some peeping tom moment in your youth.”

“She dated one of my best friends for years. Crazy years when we were all young and stupid.” Zairn licked his lips. “No, Freya’s always been the sensible one. I apologize Frey.”

“I don’t care about your days of debauchery,” Roxie said. “And where’s my apology? You just stormed in when we could’ve been having sex or anything.”

“Hot tip for the future, Lola, if you want to have sex with other people, don’t do it with your guy in the next room.”

Roxie’s hands found her hips. “Did you want something, or are you just here to do a panty check?”

“Always got time for one of those,” Zairn said. “I thought you were having lunch with Lilya upstairs. Have you scared her off already? Sent her into labor?”

“If I sent her into labor, would I be standing here?”

“Who knows with you? I thought you were upstairs already.”

“Oh, so you came in here to snoop?” Roxie crept closer to her other half. “What are you doing in my office anyway? You come in here when I’m not here?”

“All the time. It’s my building, I go where I want, when I want.”

“We need to talk about boundaries,” Roxie said, stroking Zairn’s belt when she got close enough.

“Do we?”

“There are rules with boundaries…”

“Yeah?”

“Decide your boundaries and no matter what, under all circumstances, stick to them.”

The way the couple fixated on each other left no doubt as to where their words and hands wanted to go next.

She stood up. “Thanks, Roxie, I’ll just—”

“No!” Roxie spun to lean against her guy. “Don’t go. Stay and have lunch with me and Lilya. She knows a thing or two about forbidden men.”

“Forbidden men?” Zairn asked.

“Never you mind.” Roxie waved a dismissive hand over her head before smiling at her again. “You’ll get along great with Lilya, Frey. I promise, she’s not all baby brain.”

“Thanks, but I… have plans for lunch.”

“With…?”

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