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and the sound of high heels floated through the silky night to my ears. The scent of coconut found its way to my nose along a gentle breeze. I smiled, knowing who it was, and opened my eyes before she reached me.
    “Eva,” I said.
    “Cam.” Her voice was so much better in person than it was on the phone. She walked to my side and placed a soft kiss against my cheek.
    The urge to reach out, grab her, and pull her into my lap was almost too much to bear. However, that wasn’t how we worked. This was strictly a platonic relationship. Always had been, even though I thought she was gorgeous. There are people in life you meet who you’re instantly attracted to, and then realize that’s not the reason you’re drawn together. The reason is because you’re the same. Deep down you’re the same; you get one another in a way that’s inconceivable. That was how we were, regardless of how hot I thought she was.
    “You’re a little early this quarter, aren’t you?” she asked.
    I nodded my head. “A day or two.”
    “Did you run out of money or is there another reason?” She moved to sit in the chair beside me.
    I chuckled. “You and I both know I didn’t run out of money.” That would never be an issue for me. Every deposit I’d gotten over the last two years I’d left in the bank to gain interest. Some months were good for me and I lived off the interest, and others were a little freer and I’d spend a few grand in a single afternoon.
    “I just got that tingling sensation that I wanted to come home early.” I shrugged and grinned like a fool, hoping she wouldn’t filter through the words too much and realize I wasn’t joking around.
    Every now and then, the fact I was all alone in the world, without a single person to call my own, got to me. Now was one of those times. Eva understood that better than anyone. Her mom had been a junky who’d overdosed when she was six, and she never knew her father. She’d been deposited in the foster system and bounced around a lot growing up.
    “Home, huh? The last time you were here, home wasn’t the word you used to describe this place.” She leaned her head back and glanced at the few stars visible.
    “Give me another day and I’m sure I’ll use the same term I used to describe it then again.”
    Music from inside the house suddenly blasted to my ears. It definitely wasn’t elevator music playing anymore.
    “Sounds like your welcome home party is in full swing now.” Eva laughed. “Wanna head on in?”
    “After you, sexy.”
    She sat up and smacked me on the chest. “Hey, you know I don’t like it when you call me those pet names you love to use on women.”
    “And you know how much I love to see you smile.” I grinned. Even in the dark, I could see her eyes roll and a smile twist at her lips.
    “Whatever.”
    “Are you drinking tonight?” I asked. Eva drunk was the best thing ever. She knew how to dance and shit talk like the best of them. She was the female version of me. “If so, you can crash in my bed with me tonight.”
    “Can you behave?”
    “Don’t I always when it comes to you?” I countered. “Not that I want to. I mean, I’ve already asked you a million times to be with me, but I can respect a woman when she says no.”
    “Don’t start your shit. You know I won’t be with you because we’re too much alike. It would never—” I cut her off. This was the same answer she always gave me, and I knew it by heart.
    “It would never work and you don’t want to ruin the amazing friendship that we have. I know.” I set my empty beer bottle on the ground beside my others, and scooted to the edge of my chair. “Doesn’t hurt to ask though. Sometimes persistence pays off.”
    “Not in this case, Romeo.” She stood and took my hands in hers. “Now come on. Get your ass up and let’s go party together.”
    I let her help me up, and then interlaced my fingers with hers as we walked toward the French doors. The house was crammed full of