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“And every guest who comes out of our spa will feel like a million”

“I doubt it”

Mari watched as Luca ran a finger beneath his bottom lip and she remembered how their bodies had been close How she’d shamelessly wrapped her arms around his ribs and pulled hih her That couldn’t happen again A relationship was out of the question Boundaries He’d said they could set the boundaries She wished he’d let her

“Have you ever had a spa day, Mariella?”

“I’ve had facials and pedicures, sure” Once, when she’d first moved here and had treated herself When she’d been reinventing herself

“No, not that kind The kind where you spend a whole day You are ed and buffed and polished from head to toe, so that when you’re done you feel like you own an entirely new body”

She shook her head

“You must I’ll talk to Gina”

Gina again

She was losing ground quickly Sootten away fro it back

“I do not have time for a spa day, Gina or not”

His smile was crafty “But if you’re with Gina, she’s out of my hair”

“And conveniently, so am I” She raised her brows so he knew she was on to hi me”