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“Sorry. I’ve been busy, as you should know.”
“What does that mean?”
“Busy with the man you sent me.”
“What man?” Beck sounded incredibly confused.
“Are you all right?”
“Are you?”
“I haven’t seen anyone but this gorgeous man you had waiting for me.” I tilted the phone so he could see Laurie just as Laurie yelled “no,” but it was too late.
“Laurence?” Beck yelled. “What the hell is going on?”
Surely, he knew the answer.
“Worth, I can’t fucking believe you. I set up this trip for you, and the first thing you do it the one thing I fucking told you not to do.”
“I can explain,” Laurie said.
I frowned at him. “Wait, you two know each other?”
“Of course we know each other. That’s Laurence. You’ve met him. How the hell did you not recognize him?”
I looked at Laurie then, staring in horror. “You mean you…you’re Beck’s friend?”
“Who the hell did you think he was?” Beck’s voice rose so loud I flinched.
“I thought he was a present.” Now I understood Beck’s anger. The first time I’d met Laurie—when he’d looked completely different—Beck had told me he was off-limits, even for flirting. He’d probably reiterated that in his voicemails.
“What the fuck? How dare you take advantage of him!”
“He didn’t,” Laurie said. “I could have told him who I was.”
That startled Beck into silence. A few seconds later, in a dangerously quiet voice, Beck replied, “Why didn’t you?”
“I…um….”
I’d known something was off. Laurie wasn’t like any escort I’d met. I kept telling myself he had to be acting, while knowing inside that he wasn’t.
I looked at him carefully and thought about the summer I’d met him. “You don’t look at all like you did before. Your hair was long and….”
“Ginger.”
“Yes and you…” I helplessly swept my hand up and down. His body had not looked like he spent the perfect about of time at the gym.
“I started a better workout regimen.”
“Why didn’t you say something?”
“I meant to. I started to, but you?—”
Beck interrupted him. “Oh my fucking God, Worth did you?—”
“No!” Laurie held up his hands. “I was very willing.”
Beck made a disgusted face. “He’s my brother.”
