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meet his thrusts.
    When he lifted her in his arms, she didn’t complain. He stood her on her feet and made her face the wall, both palms flat against the surface. The rattle of a new condom packet sounded behind her. Alex rewet his fingers in her pussy and then massaged her anus. Her arms gave, and she leaned on the wall. He grasped her hips, dipped his knees and penetrated her back entrance. Shannon lost her breath.
    “Alex,” she screamed.
    He squeezed her around her middle, crushing her to him. She raised up on her toes, taking every thrust, painfully aware of the clamps. The combination of all sent her up over the top right away. She came hard. Alex continued to pound into her ass. And when he growled that he was about to let go, he reached between her legs to release the clamp there. He cupped her pussy. Shannon moaned as another orgasm hit hard, one she didn’t know was coming. Together they rode through both their climaxes, mouths just brushing because Shannon had no energy to do anything else.
    When Alex was done, he lifted Shannon in his arms again and laid her on the bed. She couldn’t take her eyes off him while he discarded the used condom and joined her.
    “That was…” she began.
    “Horrible?”
    She swatted his chest. “Wow.”
    “Mm.” He curled her into his length, and she didn’t resist.
    Tonight’s experience went beyond anything she’d ever fantasized about. She might be sore in the morning, but who cared. Nothing compared to being with Alex, and if he had more to offer tonight, she would enjoy it all and consider tomorrow what she’d do about her heart.
    *****
    Shannon rushed down the street with her phone pressed to her ear. She was going to be late meeting with her student, but the singing telegram she’d just delivered ran longer than she expected. Half the recipient’s office wanted to get her number, supposedly for business, but she wasn’t fooled. She always had to be careful in her line of work. Men saw a woman in a skimpy outfit performing and they thought they could get a private session. Please, she was not that desperate for money.
    As she buttoned her long coat to hide what was beneath, she frowned, trying to recall who the ranting woman was on her voicemail. Then it hit her—Alex’s ex.
    She stopped walking and listened closer.
    “You think I wouldn’t find out you started sleeping with him? How unprofessional. Maybe I need to report you to the Better Business Bureau for unethical business practices.”
    Shannon snorted. “Good luck with that.” She’d be happy to let this “job” go, but then Laney was right. She shouldn’t have fallen into anything with Alex. Time and again, she’d gone over the decision to let him go, but there was always that hope that he loved her like she loved him. And if she wanted to romanticize their meeting, it had been Valentine’s Day, but really so what. She sighed and began walking again. After clicking delete, she went on to the next message. At her street, Shannon halted dead. Laney stood leaning against a car with her arms folded.
    “Oh come on, seriously?” Shannon muttered.
    Laney approached. “I figured I’d look you up since you weren’t returning my calls.”
    Shannon glared. She wasn’t backing down from anybody, least of all this woman who clearly thought she was superior in the way she stood, her attitude, and the tone of her voice on the phone. “And what?”
    “I paid you to sing a break-up for Alexander, not seduce him into your bed.”
    Shannon shifted all her weight into one leg and propped a hand on her hip. “And I did my job. From there, you had nothing to do with what I did or didn’t do. Not me or Alex.”
    “Alex?” Laney sneered. “You don’t think he cares about you, do you? I mean, he was broken up over losing me when he went to you.”
    That hit a nerve, but Shannon wasn’t going to show it. “Funny ’cause he didn’t look ‘broken up’ last night in bed.”
    Laney raised long elegant