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One of the elder women from the kitchen shouted for Nalini to come back to the house to help with something. She must have not seen me helping them because she didn’t scold Nalini.

Nalini stood up, towering over her sister. “You be good. And don’t run your mouth while I’m gone.”

Nadia exhaled a sigh of relief as her sister walked off. She rolled her eyes. “Big sisters.”

I smiled.

“Is it true?” she asked.

“Is what true?”

“That in America, Master Jai has a houseful of women that he keeps on hand for his…needs?”

I bit back my smile. I hadn’t been over to Jai’s house in New York, so I didn’t know for sure if it were true, but the idea of Jai having an in-house harem made me want to laugh. “I don’t think he keeps a staff of women ready and waiting for him.”

“I told Nalini that if she’s not careful, she could turn into one of those girls,” she whispered.

I loved Jai, but he went through women like they were disposable, and I wouldn’t advise any self-respecting woman to be involved with his wild parties. “I think Nalini is smarter than to get mixed up in something like that.”

She continued picking at her bowl of lentils. “My sister is pretty smart, but she’s obsessed with him. She won’t stop pining over him.”

“Well, maybe she should just say ‘hello’ and become friends with Jai first,” I said, even though I knew Jai wasn’t really a relationship kind of a guy.

“Master Jai is not the type of man that women arefriendswith. He uses them.” Nadia had seen through my lie. Her perception was on point.

“I don’t think he’s that bad.” At least, I hoped he would settle down one day.

“I see the women who stay in his apartment overnight,” she said, her eyes widening because she was excited to share some gossip.

I laughed. I liked this girl. She was brutally honest. “You spy on him?”

“Um—not spy. No. Justobserve.” She leaned in closer to me to whisper in my ear, “They barely wear clothes.”

Oh lord. I didn’t want to hear this. It was like hearing about your brother with strippers.

“They wear sexysareesshowing their cleavage and bellies. And it drives all the men crazy. Sometimes Master Jai has no clothes on and hastwogirls on his lap at the same time.” She seemed so proud of herself for knowing all of this.

Gross!I needed to gouge my eyes out from the visual. I couldn’t hide the look of appall on my face.

“No, don’t worry, Mistress Amelia. Master Shyam is never there anymore. The other maids say he used to be before he met you, but never since you came along. He’s a good person. Very respectful from what I’ve seen.”

I knew she was telling the truth because he was with me whenever he wasn’t working. I knew he had a past and had probably participated in some of the extracurricular activities that his bachelor brother partook in. However, I was secure enough to know that he didn’t miss them. Not from how he handled me in bed.

I had an idea on how to treat my man to a little experience from his old life.

“Hey, Nadia. I wonder if you could help me with something—for Master Shyam?”

“For you? Anything!” she exclaimed.

Poor girl didn’t know what she was getting herself into.

Chapter XXVI

Shyam

Ichecked the clock on my laptop. Eleven o’clock.I had spent longer than I intended finishing up some accounts that I had started earlier in the day. I felt guilty for rushing through dinner with Amelia to get back to my office to work. She hadn’t seemed offended by it and said she wanted to finish reading her book.Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.Lord knows why, of all the works of literature in the library, she had chosen a children’s book to read.

I turned the lights out in my office and closed the door on my way out. She was probably waiting for me in bed since it was late. Just knowing that she was lying in bed in her panties and one of my t-shirts, ready for me to slide inside of her, made my dick twitch. I took the stairs up to my room, two at a time, in a hurry to get to her.

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