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“Hey, princess,” I answered with a wink “You having fun?” I ran her face throughif I’d ever hooked up with her

I felt the strength of Paxton’s eye roll next tothat opinion

“Oh yeah! It’s nice to have a little so cold to bundle up for It’s been so hot everywhere else we’ve been, right?” The blue-eyed girl batted her overly made-up eyes at me

“It has,” I said She’s on the ship with us

“Well, it’s good snuggling weather,” she said with a bite of her lower lip, then waved as she got on the lift ahead of us

“Don’t start,” I warned Paxton when I saw his mouth open

He shook his head, and alked forward for our turn

“I got the confirmations on the Nepal trip,” he told me as we sat on the lift chair

“Yeah? It actually worked out with the school stuff?” We’d been trying to set up a ski trip to get some snow time in preparation, but since we’d been everywhere around the Mediterranean and Africa the last three months, there hadn’t been a lot of opportunities for the white, fluffy stuff

Our trip to Nepal—the one ride I was focused on for the docued on our school schedule, just like everything else this year

The chair jolted forward, and ere on our way up the man-made incline

“It co the week of the optional shore excursion So it’ll cost us a week in India, but we’ll swing it We have ten days total, and we’ll have to write papers on it to make up for the lost cultural excursions”

I shot him some skeptical side eye “And Leah was okay with this? Your woman is notoriously anal about school stuff”

That lovesick grin appeared on his face again, and I sed the irrational flare of jealousy that erupted in my stomach Pax deserved happiness, love, the whole damn fairy tale I was just a little bitter that shit wasn’t in the cards for me

I’d fucked up o

“She was until I promised we’d stop for a day at the Taj Mahal Plus, I booked a heli flight up to the Everest base camp”