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“Everyone has a dad.”
“Right.” He shuffled his feet, peered at the ground. “I never knew my dad. Not even his name.”
“Well, that would suck.” She might have lost her parents, but at least she’d known them.
“Can we get some quiet?” The shout of an A—which one Gina had no idea and didn’t care—split the night. Gina opened her mouth to point out that shouting wasn’t quiet, then snapped it shut again.
“The customer is always right,” she muttered, and Teo laughed, then winced as the sound carried across the chill darkness.
“Sheesh!” the other A shouted.
“Sorry,” Teo called, then lowered his voice. “I guess I’d better—”
“You want to come to my tent?”
Teo’s eyes, nearly black in the moonlight, widened. Her question had sounded like an invitation for more than conversation.
“I meant walk to my tent. So a bear doesn’t get me.”
“Of course.” He spread his hand in an “after you” gesture better suited to someone twice their age. Why she found it charming Gina couldn’t say. Maybe because she found everything about him charming.
And sexy.
Hell.
No bopping the customers, she reminded herself. It didn’t do much good.
They reached her tent, pitched on the outskirts of the circle, several yards from the others. Far enough away that any low-voiced conversation shouldn’t carry.
Gina liked to be nearer the trees, away from the guests—especially after a day like today. Or guests like the As.
“Is this…” Teo indicated the two of them, “going to get you in trouble with McCord?”
Gina frowned. “I’m not following.” She felt like she’d missed an entire conversation somewhere. When Teo continued, she understood that she had.
“If I were your boyfriend I wouldn’t like you spending time alone in the dark with another guy.”
“Boyfriend? Jase?” Gina laughed. “He’s like my brother.”
“No.” Teo’s eyes met hers. “He’s not.”
“You’re crazy.”
“Or he is,” Teo muttered. “He told me that he’d end me if I touched you.”
“He what?” Gina’s voice was full of laughter, but as she continued to watch Teo’s face the laughter died.
He was telling the truth.
“I don’t know why he’d say that,” Gina murmured. “I’m embarrassed.”
“You have nothing to be embarrassed about.”
“That he’d assume you were interested in me.” She glanced at her hands. “Guys aren’t usually.” Teo snorted, and she lifted her gaze. “Really. I’m not…”
She tried to find a word that would explain the situation without making her appear the incredible loser she must be, since few men had ever wanted to see her more than once. All she could come up with was—
“Right.”
