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woman he comes into contact with?”
    She pulled her arm out of his grip and glared up at him.  Poking her finger into his chest, she said, “Don’t you dare call that man a womanizer when you’ve dated half the female population of New York City as well as too many to count in other countries.” 
    Scarlett hurried out of the restaurant, so furious and hurt by his attitude and his belief that he could order her around!  How dare the man tell her which clients she could work with and which she needed to turn down!  And damn him for telling her that she needed extra time to grieve!  It was just one more signal that he thought last night was a mistake even when she considered it to be one of the most wondrous nights of her life!
    She yanked the car door open and sank into the driver’s seat, thinking about the previous night.  And yes, Uncle Charles was gone.  That hurt, but she was glad that he had finally passed away.  He’d been in so much pain at the end.  The cancer had gotten too deep, been too pervasive.  The chemo treatments had only slowed the cancer, not stopped it. 
    Once in her car, she reached for the ignition button but her hand fell away.  Scarlett laid her head down on the steering wheel, trying to handle the pain of Grayson’s attitude and the loss of her uncle, all in such close proximity.  It wasn’t fair!  If her uncle were alive right now, she would go to him and cry on his shoulder about how angry Grayson made her.  But if he were alive, Grayson wouldn’t have been at her house last night and she wouldn’t have experienced heaven in his arms.  Finally. 
    And no matter what that horrible man said, last night hadn’t been a mistake!  It had been wonderful!  Magical, even.  Goodness, she loved Grayson and last night had only made that love a physical need as well as an emotional one.  She wanted Grayson to take her into his arms right now and tell her that everything was going to be okay.  It might not be okay, but she would love to hear those words from him, to pretend for a few minutes that they were true. 
    Such was not her lot in life though.  Lifting her head, she stared through the windshield, trying to figure out how she was going to get on with her day.  She’d just have to push Grayson’s comments aside.  She would focus only on how wonderful it had been to sleep in his arms last night.  She wouldn’t think about his callous attitude this morning. 

Chapter 3
     
    “I need your expert advice,” Scarlett announced a couple of weeks later as she sat down among the four lovely ladies, accepting a cup of tea. 
    Three of the four women snickered.  Livia shook her head.  “I doubt we’re experts at anything other than getting pregnant,” she commented, rubbing her slightly protruding stomach.  She was three months along while Sasha was about to burst with her first child any day now, Sierra was about six months along.  All eyes turned to Jina who immediately blushed. 
    “Guilty,” she whispered as she nibbled on her fifth cookie.  “Morning sickness leaves me around noon and then I can’t find enough food to fill me up,” she said, delicately trying to carefully brush the crumbs from her fingers onto her napkin. 
    Livia nodded her head while she pushed the cookies closer.  “Been there.  Done that.  Don’t ever want to deal with that again!”
    Scarlett sighed.  “You’re all experts, obviously,” she said, gesturing to all of their pregnancies.  “You must be doing something right to be with the men in your lives.  You’re all madly in love and expecting so you qualify as experts in my book.  And I don’t have anyone else to turn to.”
    Sasha rubbed her back.  “Well, I’d agree that we’re all mad.”
    “Maybe the better term would be insane,” Sierra teased and the other women laughed. 
    “What kind of advice do you need?” Jina asked.  The men were in the other room and Malik had their daughter, Lika, as the men