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"Only friends?" Messing up a romantic relationship where the partners were best friends would bother hio because there was so he wanted to identify, to get to know, to understand

"Well, we used to date," she said, "but… uh, let’s just say I wasn’t enough for hi, right?"

"Ethan’s great Really Too bad he likes uy in my shower Talk about a shock to the system Especially since I’d stripped off all my clothes to join him"

Trey lowered his eyes He wondered if homosexuality bothered her He tended to be very open about his bisexual nature, but he’d sworn off ht? Soan, but what she didn’t knoouldn’t hurt her

"You aren’t sohed and lifted his gaze toeyes "Uh, no," he said "Not at all"

"Good What happens in a person’s bedroom is no one’s business but his own It would have been nice to have soh I had absolutely no clue that he was gy We used to go at it like rabbits" She scowled and a distant look settled over her even features That guy, Ethan, had really hurt her Trey could tell Yet, soh to continue to be friends with his He hoped

"So you asked this guy, Ethan, to be your bodyguard?"

She sood job He’s very protective ofaway my boyfriends"

"Do you have a boyfriend now?"

She looked up him "Do you think I’d let you kiss me if I had a boyfriend?"

There were plenty of women out there who’d let hi "I don’t know you well enough to say"

"I wouldn’t"

He believed her

"Do you have a girlfriend?" she asked

"Do you think I’d get into a hot tub naked with you if I did?"

"Yes"

He laughed "I don’t have a girlfriend I’m not really the co-for-a-good-time type"

"That’s too bad"

His heart sank He wasn’t sure why Usually if someone wasn’t interested he just blew it off He ducked his head and lifted his gaze to hed "Does that line actually work?"

He’d never thought to use it before Probably because it would have cos He didn’t like coed since thisas they involved Reagan Elliot "That wasn’t a line," he said

"I’ it, Mills"