Nothing to You — Scarlett Finn

I have no problem scratching your itch anytime, Babycakes. This friendship needs an incentive. Keep those benefits coming. So long as you don't go getting ideas, we're good.Ideas? she asked, trying to quell her outrage. Of what exactly? Decency? Trust? Loyalty?I'm all of the above, Radley, and then some. Free love and equal rights, whatever. Just know I won't be putting a ring on it.Mm hmm, and why exactly would I want a ring from you?You're a woman, he said. Your life's purpose is to find a guy to take care of you.Scowling into the mirror, she kept straightening her hair. It's a good thing you're rich. No woman would put up with you if you didn't provide her with a gold card. She'd need it to whisk herself away to some tropical paradise. Alone. Away from you at a second's notice.Do you know how many women have tried to tie me down? Pick a number. Doesn't matter what they start out saying, it always ends the same.That's the beauty of friendship, Xavien, she said, wearing a sarcastic smile. It keeps going long after the love has faded. I'm not one of those women you pick up in a bar or pass little notes to after gym, I'm your friend. Your best friend. So there can be kissing and sex talk and flirtation, whatever, you're still going to pick up the phone the next day and talk to me. It's in the contract.