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    Until I find one, I’m content to live vicariously through your love life.”
    “You have too much to offer to have to settle for my lame tales.”
    “Lame? You sound like you could have two hunks vying for your attention. I wouldn’t call that lame, but stop trying to distract me. Michael is trying to have his cake and eat it too. I say not only go out with Rayna’s uncle. I say give him a roll or two in the hay.” She held up a hand when Cayenne shook her head. “Trust me, Cay, you owe it to yourself not to continue to allow Michael to control your love life while he sleeps with every woman in sight.” Cayenne took a slow, deep breath before she sipped her diet drink. As she considered Desiree’s suggestion in silence, Rayna walked into the restaurant and paused at their table. “Can I join you?” Had Desiree and Rayna planned to gang up on her? She cast a quick look at Desiree, who shook her head.
    Reassured, she smiled up at Rayna. “Of course.”
    Desiree slid over on the booth seat, making room for Rayna to sit beside her.
    “What’s the topic of conversation?”
    “Love poles,” Cayenne whispered, her lips twitching.
    “Big, thick, satisfying ones,” Desiree added, quickly outlining her lips with the tip of her tongue.
    “That’s a conversation I want in on,” Rayna said, fanning herself and the three women laughed.
    When they stopped laughing, Cayenne told Rayna what she and Desiree had been discussing.
    “Naturally enough, I agree with Desiree.”
    Cayenne arched a brow. “What a surprise. But my question is why would your uncle want to help me?” Rayna shrugged. “Because he’s male and you’re an attractive woman and he’s bored at the moment.”
    “Why? Why doesn’t he have a woman in his life?” She picked up her fork.
    Rayna widened her gaze. “Who says he doesn’t?”

    Rayna widened her gaze. “Who says he doesn’t?”
    Cayenne paused with her fork halfway to her mouth. “He has a woman in his life?”
    “He has at least two—probably more.”
    She blinked, aware of a feeling of dismay. “And won’t his many women mind his pretending to romance me?”
    “His main woman is rediscovering her roots in Africa.”
    “Africa?”
    Rayna nodded, a knowing smile curving her lips upward. “Uncle Jay isn’t into white women.”
    “But he cheats while his woman is away?”
    “He’s not cheating. They’re not married, engaged, or otherwise committed to each other. They have an understanding that allows them both a certain amount of latitude. Besides, we’re talking pretend dating.” She arched a brow. “It’s not as if he’s going to want to really romance you into bed. And even if he did, you wouldn’t want that.
    Would you?”
    “No! Of course!”
    “Then no harm, no foul. Let him help you shake things up.”
    She glanced across the room just as Michael leaned close to whisper to his date. Damn him! She sucked in an angry breath and turned to look at Rayna. “I’ll think about it.” And her unforgettable uncle.
    “That’s all I ask. Just think about it.”
    * * *
    When they returned to the law office twenty floors above the restaurant after lunch, Cayenne tried to contain her conflicting feelings. She knew Michael would be bedding the woman she’d seen him with that night. Why should she spend the night, lonely and sexually frustrated?
    Rayna’s uncle had been interested enough to send her red roses while Michael hadn’t sent her flowers since she accepted his proposal nearly seven years earlier.
    Give me a try, sweet. Just maybe it was time she showed Michael she was not a doormat and that there were other men who found her sexually attractive—even if he sometimes didn’t.
    Two dozen red roses awaited her that night when she arrived home. Smiling, she plucked the card from between the roses.
    From your not so secret admirer who’ll be at the club again this weekend.
    Again? Had he been there the previous weekend looking for her?
    Her