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“It’s not all sex,” I protested “I’ on”

“Uh-huh”

“But speaking of hie my sheets Good host and all”

Snorting at that, she sloshed her coffee around in the cup “You need a bigger bed”

“Or a s a s in it and when I see a lot of ti how many o toward a new mattress

“So what happened with you and that ensign?” I asked, eager to change the topic froh it had been a couple of weeks now

“Oh, sailor boy?” Sheoff herserious”

“Did he knoas that casual?” I teased Below us, the guysover where a couch went Sabrina had undoubtedly already picked out which of the trio was her next target “You probably broke the poor boy’s heart”

“Says the guy who’s going to break Derrick’s heart” She tapped my chest with the sharp tip of one her nails

“I am not This isn’t that serious!”

“Does he know that?” Pulling her sunglasses down this tilare “Because this dating thing sure sounds like he’s after more than just a repeat hookup”

“He knows it can’t last,” I said weakly because she had a point The sexover here whenever he had tiet laid We watched ame, and talked until ere too sleepy to do much more than make out clumsily in my too-small bed “Damn it, why do I have to like him so much?”

“Because he’s a catch?”

“Says the one who practices catch-and-release fishing like she’s going for a tourna her arm

“Hell, sweetie, if I landed a Derrick, I think I’d put away ood”

“Me too,” I said h Sabrina leaving and Derrick arriving I liked him too damn much and that was a fact, and yet I still couldn’t stop the thrill that raced through me as I opened the door