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with?” he asked again.
    “I’m sure a lot of them do,” she repeated his words back to him, still smiling, knowing that he was going to try to get her to answer his previously asked question from the limo.
    “Do you ?” he asked quietly, his eyes gleaming.
    She leaned back in her own chair and crossed her arms.  “You already said I was a lady.  And a lady doesn’t kiss and tell.”
    He waited, making her squirm with his look.  “Why did you and Detective Gonzalez break up?”
    “Fernandez,” she said, exasperated.  The corner of his mouth lifted and he shrugged.  “And I already told you why.”
    “No, you didn’t.”
    “I said it wasn’t a love connection.”
    “That’s the only reason why?”
    “Yes, Luke.  Stop reading into things.”
    “Did you have sex with him?”
    “Whoa there, Daniels.  That’s none of your business.”  She started to fidget.
    “I’m curious.”  He continued looking at her.  Waiting.
    “Well, you can just keep on being curious.  That doesn’t mean it’s any of your business.”
    “I can’t imagine that he’d let you go so easily if you’d had sex with him.”
    “Wow, you’ve really overrated my skills in the bedroom,” she said, throwing him a flirty smile.  He continued staring at her as if thinking.  She frowned trying to understand what it meant.  “What the hell are you thinking?”
    He shrugged again.  “You’re too much of a good thing.  So either you two had sex, he screwed up in some way and then you ended it, or,” he paused, “your relationship didn’t reach the ultimate physical expression of your attraction for each other.” 
    Holy shit.  How did his brain even figure this stuff out?
    “And even though I wouldn’t put it past him to have screwed up, I would like to think my second guess is the truth rather than my first guess.”  He crossed his arms and waited.
    She barked out a laugh.  The guy was really something. 
    “You’d rather believe I didn’t have sex with him?” she smiled.  “Why?”
    “I didn’t like him.”
    “Obviously.  Why?”
    He looked off to the side, then looked back at her.  “He was a player.”
    Luke was right.  Detective Fernandez was definitely a player.  But she knew that when he’d first asked her out.  She also knew the detective had been a little surprised that she hadn’t had sex with him, but given the fact that he worked with her older brother, her much bigger older brother, he’d let it end and they’d both gone their separate ways.
    “That he was.  But some would probably say you’re a player,” she said cutely.  “Would you discourage me from dating someone like you?”
    “I’m not a player.”  He continued watching her, ignoring her question.
    “No?”
    “Uh, uh,” he said, shaking his head.  “A player sleeps around, doesn’t necessarily care that he’s balancing multiple women at once.  He lies, cheats.  I am most certainly not a player.”  He leaned forward placing his forearms on the table so he was closer to her.  “I have the utmost love and respect for women, I don’t lie or cheat,” he said then shifted forward more, “and I prefer one woman.”
    She was breathing deeply, mesmerized by his words and the conversation.  They’d never spoken so intimately before.  He was with Vanessa.  One woman.  She didn’t stand a chance against Vanessa.
    “Vanessa’s your one woman,” she said quietly.
    He blinked then frowned, finally leaning back into his chair.  “Janie, Vanessa and I –”
    “Never mind,” she said waving her hand.  All of the sudden, hearing him talk about Vanessa made her want to cry.
    “Wait.  Let me –” he began.
    “No, never mind.  I don’t want to talk about Vanessa.  So, answer my question.”
    He looked confused then remembered what she’d asked.  He looked her in the eye, looked away, then back again as if struggling. 
    “Do you remember the question?” she prompted.
    He nodded and she