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Her fingers played with the hair at the top of my neck "Did we?"

White-hot jealousy setwithin an inch of her Touching her Kissing those soft lips Overto it now"

"Okay," she said, like it was the simplest answer on the planet

"Good," I said a little harshly "Did you honestly think I was going to see other women after what happened on Mykonos?"

Okay, ed, but the wince clued me in that her defense ested we coled up with Blondie… I don’t know It’s like you’re two different people--Wilder for the caht maybe Wilder needed to appear available"

The way she saw ht scary "I am both, and I can tell you that both sides of me are crazy about you" Her lips parted, and it took all of my restraint not to kiss her "Bobby needed soreed But you and I have never talked about going public for the ca on Mykonos I can put a lid on, and even what happened in class wasn’t fil to make that choice without you"

"Oh," she said, her voice all breathy

"This is your choice I would never force it on you--the cameras, the publicity, the press--but I can tell you that no o further than having a few drinks on cao public, I’ to look for cameras before I kiss you"

"Really?"

I absolutely loathed the surprise in her voice "Really" What ith us and that word? "If you want to keep our relationship private, I’ll respect that, too I’ll hate it, but I never want you to be unco sure they were currently north of her ass "Probably not my eyes, but I could try"

The few heartbeats it took her to answer felt like years Of course I wanted to go public I wanted everything about us on film, so when she eventually realized what an asshole I was--and leftof her to hold on to I wanted everyone on this ship--hell, the world--to know that Eleanor Baxter wasas she’d have o public"

"Really?" I asked, ready to crow

"Really," she said with a siven ripped the base of her neck with the other, then took herthe kiss, I used every skill I had to publicly claim her--and lost myself in the process The dance floor and everyone around us disappeared, until there was only Leah in my arms, her sweet ot better, hotter, every ti in to the insane chehter--and that fire was about to burn us both alive in the rip