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you, I do.”
    She licked her dry lips and went in a little deeper on the muscles at the base of his skull.
    “Do your jaw muscles sometimes pop when you eat?”
    “Are they not supposed to?” he asked.
    She laughed. “No. That’s from clenching your jaw all the time. We need to teach you how to loosen up.” Realizing what she’d said, she clamped her own jaw shut. What was she saying? Stop it, Remy. Stop talking. Let him do all the talking.
    “I can see your feet through this face cushion,” he said, pointing down at her painted red toenails. A minute of silence elapsed as she massaged his tight muscles. He was actually starting to relax up until he cleared his throat to say something. “Last night. In the car.”
    For a moment, she froze like a statue, bracing for the emotional and physical hurt to follow. Waiting for him to say she’d disappointed him somehow. A blink later, she’d put on her game face and was back to massaging his neck. “What about it?”
    “I wanted to go do something with you, but I think I screwed up,” he said.
    “What did you want to go do?”
    He tipped his head to the side so he wasn’t addressing her feet “Anything. It didn’t matter.”
    “I’m not a one-night stand kind of girl.”
    He frowned. “I didn’t imply that I…Remy, I wasn’t ever thinking you were.”
    She swallowed and moved down to rub the taut muscles in his upper back. He had offered to stay another day. Maybe he was saying she was a two-night stand kind of girl. Today was going to be cruel and unusual torture. It was like offering a girl a taste and then taking away the frosted cake and sending it to Miami. “Yeah, well, you don’t live here, and…”
    “I could.”
    She lifted her hands and took a few steps back. “We don’t know each other that well, Owen. You’re probably just curious because I’m so different from what you’re used to.” There was no way she was going to let him make huge changes in his life for her. What if he couldn’t handle that much change? He’d eventually get annoyed with all the little things she did which didn’t follow any of his lists. She was not a list follower. She had firmly jettisoned them after last night, and her list had just been in her head.
    “I took the next two weeks off. I’m staying here for two weeks. I think we can figure things out in that amount of time.” Reaching out, he grabbed her hand, tugging her back toward him. He flipped on his back so he could watch her expression. “You can show me around. I can actually find out how my investments run when the companies don’t know I’m coming. We can see how we are and if it’ll last between us.”
    “I work, and you can’t just use your money to buy me again.” It drew attention to how different they were. Crap, when he saw her apartment, he might run for the hills anyway. She dropped her head in frustration but that drew her eyes to their joined hands, and the small circles he was tracing with his thumb on the outside of hers.
    He tugged on her hand to get her attention. His eyes were so sincere that her heart gave in with a single, fatal thump. She’d put up a token resistance, but he was staying for two weeks. They could get into all sorts of trouble in two weeks.
    “I won’t. I’ll see you at lunch and then after work. Whatever it takes. That was just for today—to make up for using up your day off yesterday.” He smiled. Her doomed heart did backflips. She’d never grow immune to his smile. “On your next day off, I can drive you around.”
    She snorted at that.
    “I also called and left a rather substantial tip for your brother since I was grateful for his misery yesterday. That was something else I might have screwed up last night. I wasn’t thinking…rationally.”
    “Well, we had gone off your list.”
    “Wait, that reminds me, I have a list.”
    She tried not to groan. A list? Not another list.
    He dug into his pocket and pulled out a list that had been