enjoyed the sex, as he always did, but he couldn’t quite get the picture of Allegra out of his mind. Nor could he forget how twisted with malice Julia’s face had been. He had the feeling he was seeing something that no one was ever meant to see. And though he tried to forget it, that image lingered too. Julia had eventually dumped him after meeting a Chicago Bulls forward. “He knows how to satisfy a woman,” she’d told Hugo in their last argument. He’d almost laughed when she said that because it sounded so melodramatic, but then she’d added, “And he’s got a lot more money than you.” The idea that she’d just been with him for his money hurt Hugo. Since then he’d been careful not to get too close enough to anyone to let them hurt him again. He was fin...

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