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eyes.
    “Three?”
    He looked at them and then tossed them behind him and pulled out a small box and I eyed it and then him.
    “Diamond studded cock ring?”
    He grinned.
    “Really?”
    I shook my head and stepped back from him.
    “I thought we established a fucking zone of hate between us?” I said and he shook the box in his hand like candy at me.
    I tried to grab it and then he grinned as I swayed a bit on my feet.
    “Are you high?”
    “Fuck you, ” I said as I turned and walked back towards the large glass panels that served as the walls to my apartment on this side. I stepped up and then looked back at him.
    “I am changing, ” I said and I stepped in with a wave of my hand to the keypad. If nothing else my Father loves technology and everything is all futuristic in here. As in the lights come on, the water runs…like I live with fucking ghosts. It has an A.I. built in and it often talks to me like a child.
    “We seem to have a pe rimeter breach on the roof Miss Beth.”
    “No…it is a…” I started to say and the screens went up as my virtual babysitter, who I lovingly call Carson, which is what I would have called my brother regardless of what my parents would have named him, started to phone the security company in the building.
    “Carson…stop, ” I said and the screen went down with a bit of silence.
    “Should I adjust the temperature and start a fire?” Carson asked me and I laughed.
    “No, he will not be staying long.” I looked out and Ryan was taking his coat off and then started to unbutton his shirt as he flipped his shoes towards me.
    I ran towards him as I almost fell. I pulled my heels off and slid out onto the balcony as he pulled his pants off and jumped into my pool. I raised my hands up and held my head as his STD infested body wrecked my water.
    “What are you doing?” I asked him and he looked up at me as he moved his legs under the water slowly.
    “Swimming…don’t you ever do this up here?”
    I shook my head at him.
    “That is a prop, I don’t swim in it.”
    Ryan laughed at me.
    “Seriously? Why do you even have shit if not to use it?”
    He dove under and I saw his perfectly formed ass and cleared my throat. I then glanced to the blanket he had laid out and saw the wine and glasses sitting next to the box. I looked back as he tread the water and walked to it quickly. I squatted down and opened it up and stared at the most beautiful red ruby, diamond ring I had ever seen in my life. It was cut into a perfect square and flanked with so many diamonds I found myself counting them.
    “ 14.” He said behind me and I fell over with it in my hand, the ring popped out and slid away from me and I reached for it but he did too and it was then that we ended up face to face, in the moonlight and pale hue of the lights of my balcony. His eyes looked kind, although I knew he was not and his skin was glistening from the water. I shook my head and stood up to get away from him. I kept my back to him and reached behind me with the ring in my open palm.
    “Very pretty, I can’t, ” I said and he smiled as he leaned down and took it from me with his lips ever so softly, kissing my hand until I balled it up and pulled it to my chest in front of me.
    “I am sure you are used to getting these.”
    I turned to him slightly, still not wanting to see him naked.
    “I don’t have any rubies.”
    “Really, that is so strange. I mean women…and this may be a talent I have, look like certain things to me and you look like rubies and diamonds of course. I am sure if you put it on you would see what I mean.”
    I then turned to him and kept my eyes locked on his.
    “My mother always wore rubies. I am sure you know this as she was at many functions in the paper weekly with all the charity work she did and quite honestly I do not appreciate you barging in here and using that like some sort of romantic gesture towards me, hoping to what? Soften me?”
    “I came here to apologize. I should