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him.
    He didn’t believe her. “Right.”
    “I wiped it because it was tingling after our hands touched,” she revealed resignedly, not looking at him.
    A rush of hope flashed through him. So he hadn’t been the only one who had felt something!
    “You felt it too.” A slow smile appeared on his face. Maybe there was a chance for him after all.
    Skye could feel her cheeks heating. She had a feeling she was somehow losing control of the situation. She cleared her throat. “So you see, we can pull it off.”
    Cian looked at her blankly, then realized she had headed right back to them being a pretend couple.
    “No.”
    “But—”
    Damn, here he was trying to be noble and she was twisting him in knots. “What if I don’t want a pretend girlfriend, Skye? What if I want a real one? What if I want a real relationship?” What if I want you? But he couldn’t say that to her without scaring her off.
    “What are you saying?” she whispered.
    Drop it, Cian. Just drop it before you say something to push her away. But he couldn’t. Something told him if he didn’t push now, Skye would slip away from him.
    “What if I said I wanted us to be a real couple? That I want you to be my real girlfriend? Would you still say it’s okay?” He looked at her intently, willing her to accept him, to say yes. Knowing it sounded impossible.
    Skye didn’t know how long they kept staring at each other, but she found she couldn’t look away from his gaze. She’d been right—no one should have eyes like his. Her heart pounded like a drum. She wondered if he too, could hear it.
    A resigned look came over his gray eyes and he looked away. “Forget I said that, Skye. You don’t—”
    “Yes.” Skye was barely aware she’d spoken until he turned his startled gaze back to her.
    “What?”
    “Yes,” she repeated a bit louder. “I’ll be your girlfriend.” She swallowed. God, what had she gotten herself into?
    Cian stared at her in astonishment. She couldn’t have… had she just said yes ? His heart swelled with happiness and deflated just as quickly. He couldn’t do it to her. He couldn’t back her into a corner like this.
    “No, you won’t. Forget what I said. Let’s eat. We have to get back to—”
    This time she was furious. She had just freaking agreed to be his freaking girlfriend and he was telling her to forget it? The guy drove her nuts!
    “Stop trying to get me to eat! I just told you I’ll do it, I’ll be your girlfriend!”
    He glared at her. “Being my girlfriend is not a chore, you know. It’s not an obligation you have to fulfill!”
    “It’s not!” she retorted hotly.
    “Fine!” he replied just as angrily, suddenly fed up. You tried to be honorable and the love of your life just kept heaping temptation after temptation on your path. “If you can kiss me on the lips, right here, right now and mean it, I’ll agree to be a couple.”
    Now that he thought about it, he wanted very much to kiss her. There was a yearning in him for Skye that he was only now becoming aware for, just as he’d found out what he felt for her. No wonder he’d almost kissed her the other day.
    Skye stared at him in shock. He couldn’t mean for her to actually kiss him?
    “Can’t do it, can you?” he taunted.
    “I can so do it!”
    Without giving herself time to think about it, Skye caught his shoulder, pulled him towards her and pressed her lips to his. She pulled back instantly.
    Cian didn’t know whether to laugh or shake her. He did neither. Instead, he caught her arm and tugged her towards him. “That was not a kiss, idiot. This is.” She looked at him in alarm but before she could say anything, he lowered his head and pressed his mouth to hers. Her heart seemed to skip a beat as his lips moved over hers, gently, questing.
    Skye had always been so sarcastic about romance, thinking what was so special about kissing and losing your head over a guy and now her heart was racing so fast, her breath catching in her