2 Chapter 2

She’d meant it in a protective way, he knew. Whether he was good toColby: thoughtful, generous, considerate. Everything Colby’s former partners had never been. He couldn’t even fault her for wanting to check in; she was Colby’s best friend and older sister, by choice if not by blood, and she cared.

He still sometimes winced, though, at the thought that Jill had seen him essentially naked on camera, for sex scenes, andhad apparently been reassured by Colby that he was very satisfactory. In allways.

“That was more or less the question anyway,” their moderator agreed happily. “Jason, you’ve done this before, haven’t you? So you know how this goes. Was it Moon Waryou were here for, last time?”

Well, he’d known it’d be coming; no surprise. He let himself sigh, exaggeratedly. Stared down at the table for a second: mock resignation.

Colby squeezed his hand.