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“My type is feisty Asian girls who aren’t afraid to boss me around.” Kai grinned then, like a wolf. Except Jun had never seen a wolf look quite as charming.
“Uh...” Jun backed up but bumped into the counter behind her. She was pinned there with Kai looming over her, eyes sparkling with mischief, as if he knew she wanted him to lean in and kiss her. Even as the thought crossed her mind, she found herself glancing at Kai’s full bottom lip, wondering what it would taste like. She felt red-hot and cold all at once, hormones rushing through her veins like a drug.
Then she thought about the redhead on his phone. Had they kissed last night? More than kissed? Yet the idea somehow didn’t repulse her as much as it should have.
Kai slowly set down his half-drunk kale smoothie, and the small click of the cup on the counter shook her out of the spell.
“You’re just trying to get out of drinking your kale,” Jun offered weakly. Kai glanced sideways at the cup on the counter, and the distraction was long enough for Jun to skip away to a safer distance, her heart pounding as she questioned whether she was glad to get away or disappointed. No, she told herself. Got to get control. Sex with the island’s sexiest surfer is not the answer. It’ll only bring more problems. She thought of the last time she’d let her hormones do the decision making, when she’d fallen into bed with Po’s father, throwing caution and all her good sense to the trade winds blowing off the ocean. While she would always be grateful for Po, she had no intention of ever letting her desire drive her again. Mistakes happen when you’re not careful, her mother had told her at the time. You weren’t being careful.
“You hired me to help you,” Jun reminded him. “You told me I set the rules.”
“That was before I realized you were such a hard-ass.”
Jun glared at him. Kai glared back.
This was going to be harder than she’d thought. He was so used to getting his way with little effort. It was about time someone showed him what it meant to work for something. “Drink it,” she prompted, nodding to the smoothie. Kai just shook his head, looking sheepish at his defeat, and downed the rest of the green shake.
“That was disgusting,” Kai groused, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.
“That was healthy,” Jun corrected.
“Healthy and disgusting.” Kai stuck out his tongue. “They’re not mutually exclusive.”
Jun just laughed a little. “Wait until you taste the spinach-lemon one.”
“Gross!” Kai made a sour face like the one Po made when Jun asked him to finish his broccoli.
Jun produced a manila folder out of her gym bag and pushed a crisp sheet of paper and a pen in front of him. “Now you’ll sign this. It’s a contract outlining all the rules I’ve just laid out. It’s a promise that you’ll uphold these rules. And that if you don’t, I walk.”
“How many strikes do I get?”
Jun couldn’t hide her surprise. “Strikes? This isn’t baseball.”
“You know, how many mess-ups do I get before you pull the plug?”
Jun stared in disbelief. Her mom would have laughed out loud at the concept of getting three chances. You follow the rules, or you don’t. That was what her tiger mom would’ve said. She never got a warning. She just got punishment, swift and decisive, anytime she stepped off the straight and narrow. She could almost still feel that slap her mother had delivered the day she told her she was pregnant with Po.
“You don’t get any,” Jun said. “No strikes. Break one of these rules, and I walk.”
Kai looked at the paper solemnly. “No strikes? Really?”
Jun shook her head emphatically.
Kai glanced at the list. “No drinking. No junk food. No sex.” He sighed. “What counts as sex? I need parameters.”
“What do you mean?” Wasn’t there just one kind of sex? Then again, she’d had only two sex partners her whole life. She wasn’t exactly as experienced as Kai. She doubted anybody was.
“Do blow jobs count?” Kai quirked a mischievous eyebrow, and Jun couldn’t tell if he was teasing or not.
“What? Yes! Of course they do! You’re losing Chi when you...” Jun swallowed, hard, imagining that. Was that what the redhead had given him last night?
