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up.”
    “See, she’s too fragile right now,” Catherine said. “The best thing for you right now is to not stick your tongue down anyone’s throat until you’re a little more…stable. Just ogle him. Ogling is great therapy.”
    She clearly had no idea what it was like to be around Leo— alone with Leo. It was impossible to keep a safe distance when there was some weird electric current drawing me toward him.
    “But we should all be in agreement that if she wanted to she can French anyone she wants. Because she no longer has any feelings whatsoever for Jeremy . At all . ” When I didn’t answer right away, Gen said into the silence, “ Right? You aren’t still in love with him? I mean, you wouldn’t go back to him after what he did to you.”
    “Not a chance in hell.” I shuddered.
    “Of course she’s not going back to him. He wanted to divorce her for money. That weasel,” Catherine seethed.
    “Exactly. Moving on, that’s what she’s doing. And maybe Leo is just the guy she needs to—”
    “No!” Catherine and I exclaimed in unison.
    I nibbled at a carrot stick. “Listen, you two. As great as it is to hear your voices and listen to you arguing about whose mouth my tongue should or should not be playing around in, you’re making my hangover worse.”
    “You called us,” Gen reminded.
    “You were nuts to have flown off on your own. What were you thinking?” Catherine scolded.
    I jumped to my feet and winced at the piercing pain in my head. Pressing my fingers to my temples, I whispered, so as not to hurt my head any worse, “My being crazy is not relevant to this conversation. The point is that he is here, I am here, and I don’t particularly like men right now.”
    “Really?” The whispered words made me shiver, and I stiffened as Leo’s lips hovered just a breath away from my ear lobe. “I thought you liked having a roommate last night.”
    My breaths were shallow spurts as I willed myself to relax. Impossible —not with him standing right behind me.
    “Listen here, Alexis Anne Gorecki,” Catherine huffed. “Did you want to give your parents a heart attack by gallivanting off to the Caribbean alone, unchaperoned ? Mom and Dad can sleep at night knowing he’s there. Seriously, Lexie, you should have stayed here with your family instead of running off.”
    I stormed away from Leo and didn’t dare look in his direction as I paced the patio. “I didn’t exactly choose all the shit that’s happening in my life, Catherine Lynn. Deborah has decided to ruin me. I’ll probably have to move. Out of state.”
    Actually, moving sounded like a great idea. Why hadn’t I thought of moving before? Just close my boutique and reopen somewhere else. Another state wouldn’t care about how I’d humiliated the Buchanan family. Another state wouldn’t care about the Buchanans at all. Deborah would forget about me. Moving definitely had a nice ring to it. The wheels in my head turned surprisingly quick, despite my hangover.
    “Move? You are so dramatic,” Catherine said, and I pictured the eye roll. “You left your fiancé at the altar. His mom hates your guts, and she’s a psycho. Happens all the time.”
    “Oh? How often?” I asked. “I want statistics.”
    “The day Lexie stops being dramatic is the day we know she’s been abducted by aliens,” Gen said.
    Leo chuckled. I paused for a second in my pacing to give him a glare. My annoyance didn’t seem to bother him one bit, and didn’t wipe the smile from his lips. He now lay sprawled out in a chaise lounge, his arms propping his head up so he could watch me pace. The tank top strained against his pecs, and it was a nice view, so I averted my gaze.
    I took my sisters off speaker phone and put the phone to my ear. “Enough with the aliens. This is serious.”
    “I know, I’m just saying,” Gen said.
    I stopped to lean against the beam of the pergola. The ocean was a breathtaking view. I’d never seen anything like it. “You know,