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Solo stifled a sigh. Face it. She was a firecracker in bed, a great listener, but she wasn’t interested in anything more. And she wasn’t going to share her reasons.
Suck it up, Solo, mate.
So when he reached her car, and she leaned her back against it and looked up at him with that glint of invitation in the depths of the green, he gritted his teeth and kissed her on the cheek. Tried to block out the seductive scent of her perfume.
“Thanks for listening,” he said, barely able to take the sudden shuttering in her eyes. Knowing that if she was disappointed they hadn’t ended up in bed, he was a thousand times more so.
He just couldn’t face any more rejections right now. And sooner rather than later, he was sure there would be one.
“See you at work tomorrow.”
“Yep,” she said tightly. “See you at the salt mines.”
He didn’t dare look at her face again, just turned on his heels and walked away.
