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“It wouldn’t have mattered. I don’t love you

that way.”

“You would have eventually. We’d have gotten married, and raised our kids here, and everything would have been perfect.”

Everything wouldn’t have been perfect because the ranch would have been sold out from under them if not for Teo. But bringing that up again … probably not the best idea.

Teo had told her that Jase wanted to be more than a brother to her, that he’d warned other men away, and she hadn’t believed him. Jase had always been her friend—her best friend, her only friend. But marrying him? Sleeping with him? Gina stifled a shudder.

“Jase.” She squeezed his hand between hers until he looked into her face. “That was never going to happen.”

His lips tightened; his eyes cooled. “It would have. You love me.”

“Like a brother.”

He yanked free. “I am not your brother!”

Before she could figure out what to do, what to say next, he grabbed her by the shoulders and he kissed her.

As kisses went, it was pretty bad. Too hard, too desperate. Way too much tongue.

She remained passive, hoping he’d catch a clue. But when his hands began to wander below her neck she stomped on his foot.

“Hey!” At least he stopped kissing, and pawing, her. “What was that for?”

“Don’t ever do that again,” she said. “It was … ucky.”

“Ucky? I thought it was hot.”

Gina couldn’t help it; she lowered her gaze to his jeans, then immediately yanked it back up. He had thought it was hot.

Now she was beyond grossed out.

“Not hot. Not cool, Jase. Get it through your head—I will never love you that way. I will never marry you. I will definitely never, ever, sleep with you. And if you keep pushing it, you’re going to have to leave.”

“We’re partners.”

“In name only. You don’t own this place, and you don’t own me.”

His face darkened; his mouth twisted. “Is that what happened? Mecate bought you along with our ranch? There’s a word for that, Gina.”

Gina sighed. Jase was upset. He wasn’t himself. She wasn’t going to hold what he said now against him.

Much.

“We’ve got bigger problems than this, Jase. Don’t tell me you left the window unguarded to come up here and—” Her lip curled; she couldn’t help it. “Kiss me.”

She wanted to wipe her hand across her lips; she wanted to jump in the shower and wash off the slurpy feeling his touch had left all over her skin. “You need to go downstairs.”

“I don’t take orders from you. I’m just an employee, so I guess I take orders from—”

“Me.”

Both of them turned as Teo stepped into the room.

* * *

From the paleness of Gina’s face, more had gone on here than an argument about who was the boss of whom. Which was all that Matt had heard upon arrival. But he hadn’t liked the tone of McCord’s voice, one he’d never heard the man direct at Gina before.

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