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VALENTINA
Thinking about you tonight. I hope you’re doing something that brings you pleasure. I hope you always are, Vee. I love you.
The text from Brantley sat on my phone. I read it when he sent it, but I was helping Bianca with homework, and then I didn’t know how to reply. Flirty almost seemed appropriate after the way we’d been talking all week, but it didn’t feel like that kind of moment. It felt different. Like what I said would determine what happened between us.
I still wasn’t sure what I wanted to happen between us. Not beyond the weekend. The weekend I knew. I wanted to sleep with Brantley. I wanted to know what claw the sheets s*x was like, and I knew he would deliver. The man gave me an o****m without even touching my skin, on my front porch! I was looking forward to le
