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Furthermore, I wouldn’t sleep with Mr. Sterling Hamilton if he was the last man on Earth. I’m done wasting my time on him,” Sasha blurted out, scarcely unaware of how hurt her voice sounded. “I’m going to focus my time on finding some hot guy who is worthy of me.”
    “Sasha, what happened today?” Genise asked, all of the teasing gone out of her voice. “Tell me what he did. I swear, if you made you cry, I’ll pay his old ass a visit.”
    “Me too,” Akisha chimed in. “No one mistreats our sister and gets away with it.”
    “Sterling isn’t old,” Sasha said, defending the man she still loved.
    God, not taking up for Sterling was going to be a hard habit to break, but she would learn to do it.
    “I don’t think he would be considered young by anyone but you. How old is he, maybe around forty-three or forty-four? I believe I can call him old all I want because it’s the truth.”
    Sasha glanced down at her half-eaten cold plate of homemade pasta and pushed it away. She hadn’t really had much of an appetite since leaving work. Sterling had tried getting her into a conversation outside his office before she left. But she just walked past him like she hadn’t even noticed him standing in his doorway.
    “Do you really care to hear about my problems?” Sasha questioned. “I’m making something out of nothing. You know how I can be sometimes.” She knew that her sisters would probably see today’s incident in a totally different light than her.
    “Sasha, if it’s enough that you barely touched your food tonight, of course it makes your problem very important to us,” Genise jumped in, surprising her.
    “Yes, it does,” Akisha said. “Now tell us what is going on. We are family and we are here for you.”
    Her sisters’ concern shocked Sasha because Genise and Akisha spent so much time competing with each other. She didn’t think either one of them had the ability to come together and give her any kind of support.
    She guessed there was a first time for everything and today must be that day for the Williams sisters.
    Sighing, she tried to tell them what happened. God, this was one time she really needed Rachelle here with her. She loved Akisha and Genise, but Rachelle was the sister she related to the most. However, maybe it was time she formed a closer bond with her sisters, besides their triplet connection.
    “I was outside work this morning when Sterling stopped me. My heart sped up because I thought this might be the moment I’ve been waiting for,” she admitted softly.
    “Go on, tell us what happened,” Akisha encouraged.
    “Sterling was standing right in front of me looking too handsome for words. I was trying my best not to show him how excited I was to see him. The next thing I knew he’d moved closer to me and then he touched me. I couldn’t control myself. I stopped being a level-headed woman. All I could think about was placing my hands on his gorgeous body, so when I touched him he…”
    “Go on.”
    “He jerked his hand away from mine and quickly took a step back. Like the feel of my hands on his body disgusted him. He acted like it was an experience he never wanted to have again. Now do you see why I’m upset with him? Wouldn’t you be hurt, too?”
    Akisha and Genise glanced at each other before looking back at her with huge smiles on their faces. “Girl, don’t you understand men at all?” Genise questioned. “Sterling didn’t move back because he didn’t want your touch. He moved away because he liked it way too much.”
    Sasha’s brow pulled down into an affronted frown. “I seriously doubt what you’re telling me is true,” she said. “You and Akisha weren’t there this morning. I saw his reaction and it wasn’t good. He looked upset like he had gotten thrown off his game.”
    “Genise is right,” Akisha agreed. “Sterling wants you and probably has for a while. Sometimes it’s hard for certain men to let the woman make the first move. When you