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.So she can tell herself you're safe," Aubrey said."Not sure I ever thought of myself as safe, but, you're right, definitely no love or relationship for me.Ever.""Just what I thought," Aubrey responded."I know your type.""Oh really?""Yep.Arrogant, refuses any commitment.Only in love with himself.""Well, shit, if you have so little faith why did you even support it?""Seriously, don't hold back Aubrey.Jeez," Jenna said.She looked to Griffen."Sorry.We're a little worried about all this, but we know if we didn't get behind it one-hundred percent Tea would latch onto that as an excuse not to do it," Jenna said softly."So don't let Brey get to you.I'm sure you're not really an asshole or anything.""Wow, thanks.Look it's okay.You can think what you want.What I will say is, I know my limitations and Althea deserves to end up with a nice guy, someone like." His voice caught."Jack?" Jenna said."Right.And I know I'm no Jack."Jenna placed a hand on his shoulder."Thing is, we know you were Jack's friend, and that gets you a lot of points in our book.But we don't know much else about you.We love Tea and we want to do whatever we can to help her move on but we're going to be here with her after you're gone.We need to be sure what you do for her is a positive, not a negative.Understand?" Griffen could see why this pretty blonde was such a successful surgeon.Her calm logical manner almost made him offer up his own shoulder for a quick slice and dice."Got it," he said with a smile, swallowing any further comments that may piss them off.It was crazy what he was suggesting to his dead friend’s former wife.He figured he should probably question the merit of any friend who didn't warn him not to be a prick."Excellent," Aubrey said with a smile."Now that we have this understanding, we can go through Althea's schedule, likes, dislikes, etc.""Should I take notes?" he joked."Don't be a smart-ass.We want this done right.We want her to get the most out of it," Aubrey said sternly."She's right," Jenna said with her calm tones."We want these two weeks to be perfect for her in, and out, of bed, so yeah, maybe you should take notes." And with that, Griffen's Althea education began.CHAPTER SEVENGriffen looked out the back window of his suite, still not quite sure what had come over him when he proposed this crazy idea to Althea.He'd been overwhelmed by everything — the hot night with her, the desire to touch her again, the need to connect with Jack's son — making him terrified of letting this opportunity pass him by.So, he'd grabbed at whatever straws he could think of to see her again and that straw ended up being the offer of two weeks with him.He heard a knock at the door and became so excited at the thought of seeing her again that he reminded himself to get it together or what he hoped would be the inauguration of their arrangement would be as embarrassing as his first time under the bleachers with Candace Johnson freshman year.When he opened the door the sight of her blew all control out the window.He pulled her inside and placed his hands on each side of her face.He kissed her gently at first, just brushing her lips with his but when he heard her gasp he had to taste her.Swiping his tongue across her lips, he stroked her mouth and groaned when she met him with her own tongue.She nibbled his lower lip and he thought he would go insane.He leaned back and looked in her eyes, almost entirely green now and full of desire.Griffen leaned his forehead against hers and whispered with a half smile, "Hi.""Hi," she said on a soft breath."I'm so glad you came.Does that mean you're willing to do this with me?""Maybe you should have asked that before you attacked me," she teased."Hell no, if you came to turn me down, I had to make sure to get a kiss in first."She smiled and then her face turned serious again.She backed up out of his arms and walked into the suite, stopping in front of the wall of windows that looked out onto the Monongahela River side of the city.Althea turned to look at him."So, let me make sure I have this right.Your plan is we spend time together having fun and lots of sex and then you go back to New York in two weeks and we're done?""Well, when you put it like that, it sounds kind of.""Perfect.""Huh?""I'm in.But, if we do this no one can know.I mean the girls know of course, but no one else, especially not Carol.""Why not Carol? She's one of my biggest fans." Griffen bristled."I know you think of yourself as very lovable, but whether she likes you or not is irrelevant.You aren't Jack.That's all that matters to her.She can't accept me being with anyone else and I'm not ready to push her on that.""What about what you need? That doesn't exactly support this baby steps program you've set up for yourself.""That doesn't matter right now.I just don't want to open Carol up to that when you're leaving so soon.it's better just not to upset her.""But people will know we're hanging out.I don't plan on just being a back door man.unless you're into that kind of thing," he said with a wink.She rolled her eyes."Can you be serious for even a second?""Hmm, let me try." He schooled his face into a stern mask, holding it for two seconds, then grinning at her."How was that?"Althea couldn't hold in her laugh."Not bad.But you need to do more reps.Improve your stamina.""You'll find I have great stamina and there are some things I'm incredibly serious about.Giving you pleasure and happiness over these two weeks is definitely one of them.In fact, I hope to make you a little less serious by the time I leave.""That's a lofty goal.""And in the interest of seriousness, I'm not sure how we can keep ourselves secret.""We won't need to hide from each other or anything.Yes, people will know I'm spending time with you, but you were Jack's friend, that's expected." Griffen cringed at the mention of Jack."They just won't know that we're spending time together.""Is that what the kids are calling it these days? 'Time’? ""Honestly," she said, "I have no idea what they call it.Not sure what they ever really called it.I'm not exactly.experienced." He raised an eyebrow and she looked away with an embarrassed wrinkle appearing between her eyebrows."So now let's, uh, get to business.""Are you sure about this? You seem kind of.nervous.""What? Nervous? No." Griffen raised an eyebrow at her and examined the way she shifted her weight back from one foot to the other and looked everywhere in the suite but at him
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