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She grinned at him and finished off her glass of champagne. "You’re one of the most amazing men I’ve ever known, so that makes us even then."

There was a tangible silence between them for a heated moment, and he made himself draw in a deep breath. "I thought you said that you were going to get into the hot tub." He knew he was pushing the edge of their flirting, but he didn’t care. He didn’t know if he didn’t care because he wanted to push the edge of it and go a little further, or if it was because he was drinking. He had stopped thinking about it and caring when he had pulled her close to him on Parker Bennett’s yacht, when Parker had begun flirting with her. He hadn’t liked it at all, and he’d wanted to make it clear that she was not available—at least, not available to anyone but him, if that was what she chose.