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I didn’t
like them. They had a wonderful son who was just rough around the
edges. Underneath all of that, he was a great person. “You deserve
better.”
    “There are times when I wish I had different
parents, but they did raise me and put a roof over my head. It
wasn’t always bad like this. I do my best to get along with them,
but sometimes I feel like they aren’t giving me that same effort.
In the end, I do love them—even when I want to murder them.”
    “They’re lucky to have you.”
    “I don’t know about that…I was a handful.
They deserve a medal for raising me.”
    I chuckled. “I’m sure you’re
exaggerating.”
    “I wish I were.” He crossed his arms over his
large chest. “So, anything else you want to know?”
    “I assume you didn’t go to college?”
    He just stared at me.
    “That’s a no…”
    “I’m not college material.”
    “I’m sure you could do anything you put your
mind to.” I made a few notes in my notebook.
    “What’s your story?” he asked. “Why are you
an escort?”
    I spun the pen in my fingers. “We’re here to
talk about you, not me.”
    “We can’t be friends?” he asked. “Don’t I
have to know something about you before I bring you home to my
parents?”
    “Well, I need to create an alias. What do you
think your parents would like?”
    “A goodie goodie. Someone well mannered and
educated. Something boring.”
    “Okay,” I said. “How about I say I attended
NYU for literature and then started running a flower shop in
Brooklyn? Where do your parents live?”
    “Connecticut.”
    “So, they probably don’t know all the flower
shops in New York?”
    “Doubtful. That works. You look like you’d
work in a flower shop anyway.”
    “Thanks…or are you calling me boring?”
    “No.” He gave me a smile. “Actually, that’d
be really cute. I’d totally make a pass at you if I saw you priming
roses in the window of a shop.”
    My cheeks felt warm again. “Thanks…I guess
I’ll have to research different flowers and what not.”
    “My parents aren’t going to interrogate you
that much.”
    “I’d rather be prepared,” I said. “It’s what
you’re paying me for.”
    “I feel like all my money was spent on your
beauty.” He said it with a straight face. “Are you a model and just
do this on the side for money?”
    It was the biggest compliment I’d ever
gotten. “Uh, no. This is my only job.”
    “Really?” he asked in surprise. “You fooled
me.”
    “It’s good money and I have control over my
hours.”
    “Do what you like and don’t give a shit what
anyone else says,” he said bluntly. “I’m just surprised you don’t
get tired of men gawking at you all the time.”
    “They don’t,” I said. “Some do but not
all.”
    “Maybe I should get into this business.” He
winked at me.
    “You would get fired so fast.”
    “Why?” he asked defensively.
    “Because you’d sleep with all the
clients.”
    “So?” he asked. “What’s wrong with that?”
    I rolled my eyes. “The second you sleep with
them, you’re breaking the law.”
    “How so?” He was totally clueless.
    “Because it’s prostitution.”
    “Oh…” His eyebrows furrowed. “I didn’t think
about it that way.”
    “So, you’d never be able to work here.”
    “That’s a shame,” he said. “I’d bring you a
lot of business.”
    “We bought the company from a group of guys a
few years ago. Now we’re just a group of women running it.”
    “This seems like a good gig. Why give it
up?”
    “They settled down. They didn’t want to
moonlight as other people’s boyfriends anymore.”
    “I guess that would be a conflict. If I ever
had a wife, I wouldn’t let anyone touch her.”
    “You think about getting married?” Earlier he
said he didn’t do the girlfriend thing so I was a little
confused.
    “No. That’s why I said if and not when . Relationships aren’t for me. I get what I need and
then move on. And I’m happy that