Bella makes an impatient sound in her throat. She abandons the brush and dabs a middle finger into one of the dark reds on her palette. She rubs the color onto Georgia’s lower lip. Georgia lets her mouth open beneath Bella’s pressure. Georgia thinks, This is different. She thinks, Bella is taking extra care. She wonders why. She has a thought and then smothers it. Georgia is falling into the same trap men at the club fall into. They forget or ignore that they have purchased a woman’s attention. Do this for me, and I will give this to you. Quid pro quo is all there ever is, yet some men think
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