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what?” She wanted to kiss him some more
but didn’t want to look like an attacking suckerfish.
    Humor warmed his eyes. “I don’t do that on
the first date.”
    Lizzy’s mouth dropped open. “You are shitting
me!”
    Theo laughed and pulled away from her as he
straightened.
    She made a grab at his shirt but missed.
“Come on! Quit fucking around, slap me up against this wall, and screw me.”
    “I mean it. I don’t.” He stepped back.
    She stepped forward and poked him in the abs.
She meant to poke him in the chest, but she was too short so she
ended up poking him in the torso. Her finger slipped off a hard
lump and slid into the deep valley that ran down the center of his
abdominal muscles under his shirt. “You don’t like me? I’m too
short?”
    He grasped her chin with his thumb and
forefinger and turned her face up. His eyes seemed kind. “I like
you. You’re funny.”
    “Is there something I should know?
Something,” she searched for a euphemism, “viral?”
    “Nope. I’m as healthy as a thoroughly
vaccinated horse—”
    Lizzy wanted to see if he was hung like one,
too.
    “—but I made myself a promise a couple of
years ago. I was tired of being treated like a piece of meat.”
    He looked like very good beefsteak, and Lizzy
wanted to bite him.
    “So I don’t do that anymore.”
    Lizzy asked, “You know what this party is, right?”
    “Yes.” He dropped his head to the side.
    “Then why are you here?”
    “I was dragged here. It wasn’t my idea.”
    Her phone in her purse buzzed again and a
horrible thought crossed Lizzy’s mind. “You’re not, like, saving
yourself, right?”
    He laughed. “No, but I have relationships,
not one-night-stands.”
    “Just how many dates does it take to get into
your pants?”
    He grinned. “That’s the hard part.”
    “No, evidently, that’s the—”
    “You have to convince me that you don’t just want to get in my pants. Ready to give up yet?”
    She looked up into his light caramel eyes
again, at the humor and intelligence and glints of gold there, and
at his strong jaw and sun-bleached hair. Her hands rose on his
shirt, tracing the contours of his chest and abs. “Jersey girls
never give up.”
    “Good.” He ducked his head and kissed her
again, exploring her lips. “I was hoping you’d say that.”
    “So we’re just going to neck back here?”
    “We might talk.”
    “I might have a heart attack and die.”
    “We could go back to the party, maybe dance
some more, or have another drink.”
    Her purse strap buzzed on her wrist
again.
    Lizzy scooped her phone out of her purse and
glanced at it. “Damnit. My girlfriend Rae is texting me, wanting to
know when we can leave. I guess I’m on my way out.” This would
sound sappy if she didn’t say it right, and a Jersey girl was never
fucking sappy. “So, you, um, want my number, or something? You
know?”
    “Absolutely.” He tugged his phone out of a
phone-holster on his belt and handed it to her.
    She typed in her number. “Yeah, you know, if
you want it. Whatever.”
    He took the phone back. “I’ll call you.”
    There was no fucking way she was going to say
something needy like when, so she shrugged. “Yeah,
whatever.”
    He tapped his phone, and her cell buzzed in
her hand.
    She raised the phone to her ear, staring into
his golden eyes the whole time. Surely he wasn’t calling her right
then, right? “Hello?”
    Theo’s lips were close to hers, and his
breath warmed her lips. His voice felt like velvet on her lips and
tickled her ear through her phone. “God, you smell good. When can I
see you again?”
    This was weird. He was supposed to wait three
days to call and she was supposed to act like she didn’t care. Of
course, he was also supposed to take every opportunity to get his
rocks off. “Um, next Friday?”
    His eyebrow rose. His lips barely touched
hers, just rubbing her lower lip and sending vibrations down her
spine.
    God, this was just kissing .
    Theo pulled back