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Only someone who hadn't known her long would take Taylor at her word, but somehow, it rang true. The notion did sound more like me than like them. The results I'd seen at lunch had indubitably been more a man's handiwork than a woman's. Had that really been my idea? I could believe it of myself. That didn't mean I wanted to, though.

"So you made Isa betray her own integrity, and Candy betray her lover. Is that it?"

"If all that means what I think it means, then yeah. Something like that. Abbie and me, we--"

"Abbie and I. Nominative case, Taylor. We've been over this."

She shook her head irritably, removing her hands from my belt. "God, you know how to ruin shit. Anyway, we cleaned it up, made it hard and simple so they can't squirm out of it. Took some of your advice from when you were sober, too, made sure they got off on it. Hook 'em with pleasure, right?"

I took hold of her hips before she could back away. "Now that I remember saying."

"Yeah, so we made sure they both get off