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wanted to be with me for me. I always suspected it was because of my money.”
    “Some may have just wanted to fuck a gorgeous guy,” I suggested. That elicited a slight smile from him.
    “I decided to just go with it. Sex with different pretty women. It seemed easier not to let anyone get close. I never had, until you, even slept in the bed with them. It was just sex. That's what Jessica was.”
    “Okay. I understand all of that. I even understand that . . . Jessica, even became one of your 'fuck buddies' as you called her. But that was all before me. While I didn't know the details, I pretty much knew that about you. Hell, the whole world knew that about you. I recognized it as part of your past. The problem is that it became part of your present while we were together.”
    “Yes. And I am truly sorry. I know I hurt you and that has pained me. Ashley, you were the first woman that I felt I could trust to be with in a real relationship. But I messed up.” Brandon walked toward me and sat on the couch next to me.
    “Ashley, you have to believe me that I never planned on sleeping with Jessica. It doesn't excuse the fact that I did. But I knew it was wrong and I committed to never let it happen again. And it didn't. That needs to count for something.”
    “Perhaps. I just don't know for how much,” I said as I looked at him. I could easily get lost in his beautiful blue eyes. Those eyes that so captivated me and held my gaze each time I looked into them.
    “It happened two weeks after we started dating. I was at a club and had too much to drink. I ran into Jessica. She had been drinking a lot as well. She came on to me. Ashley, I was weak. I gave in to the temptation. After, I told her that it was a mistake. That I was seeing someone and that I was committed to the relationship. I didn't see her again until Friday night when she showed up at the penthouse.”
    “I'm still not sure, Brandon. And, how do you explain Friday night?”
    “Apparently she still had an access card, which I took from her Friday night. I had received your text. When I came downstairs and saw the lights dimmed and the fireplace on, I assumed it was you. I was excited that you were surprising me like that. Ashley, she is the same size as you, similar hair, and it was dark enough that I couldn’t make out her face from across the room. It wasn't until she threw herself at me that I noticed that it wasn't you. That was just as the elevator doors opened and you saw us. I know how that sounds. I know that it would take extremely bad, and rather improbable, timing for it to happen that way. But it is the truth.”
    We sat in silence while I thought. I could sense Brandon's anxiety. I sensed by looking in his eyes and watching his body language that he was probably telling me the truth. But I still questioned if he could avoid another “moment of weakness” in the future.
    “Although it would take incredibly small odds at such bad timing, I'm inclined to believe you,” I said as I stood. “And I also tend to believe that it was just the one time with Jessica. I might, with time, even be able to forgive that. What I'm not at all confident about is that it won't happen again. Maybe not with Jessica, but with one of the many other women. Or someone entirely new who you find irresistible, if even just in the moment. I don't know that I can trust you to be with just me.”
    “Ashley – ”
    “No. Brandon, let me say what I need to say,” I interjected as I held up my hand. “Maybe I will find that level of trust again. But it is still too soon for that. I'm not ready to trust my heart to you again. Not now, anyway.”
    Brandon stood and stepped toward me. He took my hand in his. I let him. But I had gained a new level of clarity and strength. Yes, I still wanted Brandon. I could easily give in to my sexual urges, but I had also fallen for him and I needed more than sex with him.
    “Can we go away? Find time just for the two of us?” He