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closed the door when two men wearing suits halted their conversation to look at her. “I told you this morning how I feel. Why can’t you accept that?”
    “I’m not very good at conceding defeat, angel. It’s not in my nature.” I scrolled through the messages on my phone, pretending I wasn’t fully engaged.
    “So you admit you’re just doing this to prove a point?”
    “I never said that.” I looked at her, smiling. “I just said I don’t like to lose. In this case, losing out on an opportunity to be with you… that would be hell.”
    She closed her eyes. Her chest rose and fell when she took several deep breaths. “Why do you do that?”
    “Do what?”
    “Say things… that…” She groaned. “Make me want to… kiss you.”
    “I like the sound of that.” I wiggled my eyebrows as I patted my thighs. “Come, sit here.”
    “I didn’t say I was going to kiss you,” she said, her lips quirking in amusement. “Just that sometimes you make it hard not to.”
    “I’ll take it.” It sounded a hell of a lot better than where we’d started the day.
    “Come on, let’s go pick out some furniture. If you’re determined to stick around and be a pain in the ass, you might as well do it in style.” She reached into her purse when her phone buzzed. “Though I’d like to go on record as saying I don’t care whether you sit on orange crates and sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor.”
    I loved her spirit. It was adorable she didn’t intend to go down without a fight, but surrender she would, because one way or another, I intended to make her mine. I was just about to tell her so when I saw her expression. All trace of amusement from our playful banter was gone.
    “What is it, sweetheart?”
    “Apparently the word’s out that Jeff and I are through.”
    “So?”
    “People are saying it’s my fault, that I dumped him because I’m sleeping with you.”
    I curled my hand into a fist. “You think he’s behind this?”
    She covered her eyes with her free hand. “Who else? God, I don’t need this right now. My business was just getting on track. The last thing I need is negative publicity.”
    “We warned that son of a bitch.” I leapt out of my chair, keys in hand. “I told him if he messed with you, there would be consequences. He’s about to find out I don’t make empty threats.”
    Maura grabbed my arm as I walked past her. “Blaise, don’t. He’s not worth it. Honestly, I’m just glad to be rid of him.”
    “You can’t let him get away with this. He was the one fucking around.”
    “So was I.” She ran a hand down my chest before letting it fall to her side. “Am I really any better than him?”
    “You weren’t out screwing male strippers every night.”
    “I still cheated,” she said, looking at her shoes.
    “Please don’t beat yourself up about that.” I hated to see her torturing herself when her douchebag ex had no regrets. “It was one night.” I tilted her chin with my thumb and index finger. “It’s not like you’d ever cheated on anyone before.”
    “How do you know that?”
    “Because I know you.” So well. “I know you’re not the type to cheat.” I was ashamed that I’d once accused her of cheating. With the wisdom of years behind me, I could see how ridiculous that accusation was. She’d loved me. She would never have shared her body with anyone else.
    “Why do you always see the best in me?” She gripped my wrists when I reached for her face. “You don’t even know me, yet you’re so sure you’ve got me all figured out.”
    “I’m a good judge of character.”
    She laughed as she let her hands drop to her sides. “I wish I could say the same. Right now, nothing in my life makes sense. I feel like everything is a lie. Jeff just reinforced my belief that this relationship thing isn’t going to work out for me.”
    She was singing the same tune as last night, and I wanted to silence it once and for all. I captured her mouth with mine as I