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to get dressed.
    “Don’t be ridiculous, darling. I’m a diversion for you, and you bring a bit of naughtiness to my life. You’re a competent lover but I don’t feel anything for you. Surely you realize I have an erotic and highly satisfying sex life with West, I’m not about to give him up,” she said, as she smoothed her stockings over her long legs and fastened them to the lacy garter belt she wore.
    Charles caught her hand as she passed by the bed and pulled her down next to him, “You’re stunning, but you know that don’t you? Like a movie star from the glamorous days of Hollywood. Here, this is for you, Evie, a token of my love.”
    The box was from Bulgari and inside was a wide rose-gold cuff set with large emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds. She slipped it on and Charles kissed the inside of her thin wrist. She carelessly ran a hand through his hair and kissed him passionately, then left the bed and continued to dress.
    He was behind her in a moment, his hands on her shoulders, his breath hot against her neck, “Evie, I’m going back to New Orleans in a few months, come with me. You’ll love it there, and even though you’re much too young, you are about to have grandchildren. Wouldn’t you like to be near them, wouldn’t you love to have a powerful and influential man as your husband?”
    “I’m not as lucky you are, darling. You’re always saying how incredibly beautiful your little grandson is, I doubt that my grandchildren will be the least bit attractive. Honestly, who are these people Alexander and Amanda have married? No one has ever heard of their families, it’s terribly distressing, Charles. You cannot imagine what my children have put me through; they’ve thoroughly disgraced our good name. If you recall, I was married to a man much more powerful than you, and I can’t say that I ever felt any true love for Holden Bly, ah well,” she said, reaching for her skirt and stepping into it.
    “I can help you make the best of the situation with your children, Evie, if you come with me and we get married. You could get to know Charlotte’s little boy, I know you’d be crazy about him. The truth is, I love you and I’ve never really been in love before, I need to know that you’re mine.”
    “You are a hopeless romantic, Charles. What about the girl from your past, Charlotte’s mother? Didn’t you love her?” she asked, buttoning her Chanel jacket and stepping into Louboutin pumps.
    “That was almost thirty years ago, I was a different man then,” he said, and he let his hands fall away from her.
    “Well my darling,” she said, kissing him, then opening the door to leave the suite, “thank you for lunch, and for the bracelet, and of course, for the sex.”
    *
    “Is my sister here yet?” Evangeline asked West when he picked her up at the airport. “I can’t stand the flight from London to Paris, you go up, and then you come down. It’s ridiculous, there’s not even time for a cocktail. Tell me darling, is there any word from my destitute little sister?”
    “She’s at the house, she’s been here for two days, where the hell were you?” West asked. His hands were clenched on the wheel of the Mercedes.
    “Shopping darling, you know that. So did my sister try and fuck you?” she asked, leaning to kiss his cheek before she took out her compact to check her makeup.
    “Yes, and I let her,” he said.
    “What? Have you lost your mind? You’re mine, how dare you lie down with that little bitch in heat. Oh isn’t she the sad, grieving widow! How dare she come here to enjoy my hospitable charity and then seduce my one and only love? And you, you’re no better than she is, it makes me ill to imagine that you put your dick in such trash!” Evangeline ranted on and on, and when West began to laugh, she screamed like a banshee and told him to stop the car and let her out.
    As soon as they were home, she stormed into the house screeching her sister’s name.