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tank tops during their chats.
    They had discussed in length about Joey’s upcoming visit and Zoe promised it was going to be a vacation he would never forget, taking him to some of her favorite places and hot spots.
    When the topic turned to sleeping arrangements, Joey mentioned a hotel he had found that wasn’t too far from Zoe’s condo and she frowned at the suggestion.
    “I was hoping you would stay here,” she suggestively said.
    Joey rubbed his chin and leaned forward to the screen. “If I spend the night there, I can’t guarantee our relationship will still be platonic.”
    “Maybe that’s what I want,” Zoe’s tongue briefly wet her lips.
    Joey felt his jeans tighten upon the memory. He made sure he packed an extra box of
    condoms just in case.
    It wasn’t the potential sex that made him nervous. The trip was going to determine if there was a future between the two of them. A long-distance relationship never worked and Joey had been in plenty to know that firsthand. But he was willing to give this, whatever it was, with Zoe a shot. He didn’t want to spend his life pondering ‘what if?’ when he could reminisce and smile, ‘I did.’
    Just as long Kieran had no knowledge of it.

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Ugh, why am I so nervous? I just spoke to him last night. This has been in the works for a while now. Get a grip, girlfriend.
    Zoe crossed her arms as she kept side-stepping, enough where if she added a few more moves, she would be country-line dancing.
    She didn’t know why she was so nervous. Joey told her his flight itinerary and she had made plans for them for that week. She took an impromptu vacation from Fits and Giggles and didn’t have to explain to Kieran why she was suddenly going on vacation in the middle of October. Everything was falling into plan.
    Maybe that was the problem. Everything was perfect.
    She tried to convince herself that Joey would never be serious about her. That his player reputation would get the best of her and she would be cursing herself for being so stupid once he finally showed his hand. Yet, every phone conversation…every video session…the sexual innuendos became blatantly obvious with the two of them almost talking dirty to each other.
    “If I wanted to get into your pants, we wouldn’t be talking about your ambitions and goals because I wouldn’t care,” he smiled over the computer screen, “you’d be too busy praising Jesus for my tongue.”
    Zoe squeezed her thighs tight as she felt the warmth spreading between her thighs and crawl up her belly. “Is that so?”
    “That’s right,” he murmured.
    “Boy, I’ll whip it on you so good, you’ll want to make me oxtails with a side of fried rice,”
    she countered with a lick on her lips and blew him a kiss.
    Joey chuckled. “Oxtails, huh?”
    “With a side of fried rice.” Zoe smiled.
    So she can chalk it up to being lust. She could deal with lust. But it was more than lust. It was more than infatuation. Zoe didn’t dare to say that other dreaded L word, though her heart was itching towards that direction. She was about to make a very big transition in her life and the last thing she needed was to become someone’s girlfriend, no matter who he was or how fat his pockets were. It was against her moral code. It was against her ethics and beliefs.
    Joey seemingly tossed all of that out the window and all he did was smile.
    Zoe’s sexual frustration was at an all-time high and she could admit she was wearing out her sex toys. At Fits and Giggles, her focus were on the children and being Kieran’s assistant, though whenever she saw her boss, she couldn’t help to see a little bit of Joey inside of him.
    Even some biracial children had Zoe wonder what shade of brown her babies with Joey would look like.
    Zoe groaned at herself. She was acting like a love-struck teenager who just discovered she liked boys during the summer vacation and it embarrassed her. Every little thing seemingly reminded her of Joey. A song on the