“How do you know we weren’t having a threesome?” Alexi retorts with a smirk, and I continue to smile back. However, a little flutter in my stomach reminds me that this man has more power over me than I like to admit. I know he is joking, but still, it stirs the little green-eyed monster in my belly. I don’t like his joke when it cuts too close to the bone, and it smarts.

“Because the girls don’t start until four, so unless it involved one of your big burly men ….” That ...