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distance. She pulled her tattered and frayed short jean skirt up her legs and slipped her gray shrug on her arms. When she sat back down, she slumped her shoulders, relaxing her body. There were slits on her tights on the soles of her feet, and she pulled the fabric over her toes and up her ankles to let her feet breathe, and then she slipped her feet in her black gladiator sandals as she waited for Anna to stop picking at her own feet. Anna was scowling at her toes, and Gray smirked at her.
    “Sweetie, you gave up having beautiful feet a long time ago,” she commented.
    “Eh… You’re right.” Anna peered at her, finally giving it a rest and pulling her slip on mules from her own bag, but once her shoes were on, she made no move to stand. “He was hot. You noticed, I assumed.”
    Gray just stared at her best friend.
    “Of course you noticed.” Anna smirked. “Kind of scary looking, but … hot for sure.”
    “He’s not really scary. He can be… I don’t know… Kind of nice actually.”
    “Tell me about him.”
    “His name is Jasper. He and Ian grew up together in California. He had a rough childhood, and Ian told me he dropped out of high school when he was a junior, but they stayed in touch. When Ian ended up at the University of Texas, Jas eventually settled down in Austin too. Ian fronted the money for Jasper to buy an old rundown house on Rainey Street—you know, where they have those cool, eclectic bars? Anyway, they converted the house into a bar, and—”
    “Ian is part owner of a bar?” Anna sounded shocked.
    Gray laughed. “No. Not now. Jas bought him out a few years ago. The bar ended up being really profitable, but Ian wasn’t interested in staying involved long term—not with his own career in corporate finance to worry about.”
    Anna hummed thoughtfully. “What’s the bar?”
    “Graystone.”
    “How very coincidental.” Anna smirked.
    “How so?”
    “Graystone. Gray.”
    “Oh, please,” she muttered. “I should entertain the idea of sleeping with the man because the name of his bar contains part of my name in it?” She scoffed.
    “No. I don’t think you should sleep with him at all.” Anna studied her for a moment. “I know you, and I don’t think you can do something like this and then just walk away as though it was nothing.”
    “I know. And I’m not going to. I’ve only been with one other man besides Ian. I’m practically a prude.” Gray’s focus shifted to her lap as she picked at her fingernail mindlessly. “Ian said Jas already knew what he wanted to do. That they’d already talked about it even.” She gnawed on the inside of her lip as the pain of that thought once again bit her.
    “And?”
    Gray glanced up to Anna, but then she glanced away, still trying to wrap her head around why that bothered her so much. She shrugged. “He knew Ian was going to ask, and…” She shook her head. “…I don’t know.”
    “Shouldn’t you be upset with Ian for springing it on you like that in front of Jasper? Not Jasper for not telling you what Ian was going to do.”
    “Yep.” She nodded. So why was she so offended by Jas too?
    Anna’s expression turned quizzical as she studied the floor. “I wonder what it would be like.”
    Gray snorted. “Painful?” But even as she said it, her skin warmed and she flushed.
    “You’re probably right. Especially if either one or both are well endowed.”
    “Well, according to Ian, Jasper is hung like a stallion.” And her skin was flushing again.
    Anna’s eyes bulged, and she shook her head as she laughed quietly. “Best to leave this one alone, honey.” She clapped her hand on Gray’s leg.
    “I intend to.” Gray thought about it for a moment. “I mean, where’s the intimacy in it?”
    “Is it about intimacy with Ian?” Anna’s brow was cocked as she waited for a response. “I mean, he’s the one who suggested this. I’m just curious.” She looked nearly offended for Gray.
    “Honestly, I don’t know