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“I won’t. It was just…it was a one-time occurrence.”

“It better be. This is small scale. We can bounce back from this. No one will find out about the product, so there won’t be a scandal for me to take care of.”

“Thanks for having my back, Briana.”

“It’s what you pay me for.”

Briana leaves, but her words echo in my mind. I need to forget about AJB-9, but I can’t. It worked so well. It could change lives.

I need to figure out a way to make it work without the secret ingredient.

But first, there’s something more important I need to do.

I have to win Amber back.

24

Amber

I never should have trusted Dr. Blake.

It was all too easy. The run-in at the convention. The sex in the exam rooms. All our private dates.

I should have known something was wrong. He was far too perfect to be real.

What was AJ thinking? He said he put his come in the serum in a fit of frustration. Is that a valid reason? I guess so. But he should have thrown the serum away immediately. Why did he have it with him at the convention?

I was too angry to ask AJ these questions. Now, I’m just sad.

Tears spill from my eyes. I thought I loved him. How could I be so stupid?

No, I think angrily. AJ is the stupid one.

For two months now, I’ve been using a special serum containing my boyfriend’s seed. And he wasn’t even my boyfriend the entire time!

Would AJ have given the serum to just anyone at the convention? I’d thought I was special. We seemed to have a connection from the moment we met. For the first time ever, I felt like the girl who guys stare at from across the room.

But it was all a lie. It had to be. AJ needed someone to use his come serum, and I was a ready and willing target.

My crying turns to full-on sobbing. What a fool I’ve been! AJ is probably laughing at me right now. I was so desperate to feel loved by a sexy man like him that I went along with everything he said.

What was true, and what was a lie?

I’ll never know. AJ is no longer a part of my life. How could I ever forgive him for this? He put his come in a serum and then gave it to me to use! On my face!

It sounds so ridiculous. If someone had told me this story, I wouldn’t have believed it. No doctor would be so frivolous as to put his own seed into a serum and give it to a stranger.

Yet it happened. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

I wipe my eyes and get up from the couch. In my fridge, there’s a small container of the serum.

I left the rest of it in AJ’s office. I couldn’t bear to keep it. I’d forgotten about the extra I kept around just in case.

I’ve been taking the serum with me everywhere I go. I bought a small cooler that keeps it cold during the day. Truthfully, I’ve been hoping for more invitations to AJ’s house, and I wanted to make sure I had the serum with me. I won’t be going to AJ’s house anymore. I can’t believe I was so naïve to think that what we had was real. If it was real, he would’ve told me immediately what the secret ingredient was.

If I hadn’t forced him to talk to me today, would I have ever found out? AJ might have let me live my life without knowing I’ve had his come all over my face, and not in a sexual way.

I open the fridge and pull out my emergency vial. I had seen myself losing the other container or breaking it or it getting too warm. I’m a klutz, and I tend to lose things often. It made sense that I should keep an extra.

There are only a few drops in the vial. I only kept a couple days’ worth for emergencies. It’s not like I used a ton of the serum every day. It only took a small amount to work miracles.

Miracles, I think. That’s what AJ had said. Is it a miracle that the serum used his come and that I put it on my face every day?

I shake my head. I wouldn’t call that a miracle. I’d call it a scam.

I want to throw the vial. Breaking it would be so satisfying. Maybe instead of leaving the other container on AJ’s exam table, I should’ve thrown it at his head.

Laughter bubbles from my mouth. His face would’ve been priceless! Dammit, why didn’t I think of this sooner? Now, I’ll never get the chance. AJ and I will never be in the same place at the same time again if I can help it.

A pang of sadness clutches my heart. It’s been less than an hour since I left AJ’s office, but I already miss him.

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