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She lifted an eyebrow. “Now who’s the smarty-pants?”
His laugh was a low, rolling chuckle.
She held on to the stem of her martini glass and told him the truth. “I need a date for my brother’s wedding. It’s next Saturday.”
“And you thought of me?” Humor radiated off him. “You want to piss off your parents or make someone jealous?”
She wasn’t trying to make Jayson jealous. Nor did she care if her parents were upset by her attending solo or with a date. What she did care about was the seemingly undeniable lure of her ex-husband.
The way Jay could look at her from across a room and make her heart skip a beat and her brain forget their checkered past. An innocent, polite dance at the last wedding reception had turned into more when his hand moved to her lower back and he’d laid his lips against her ear.
She couldn’t let that happen again.
“A bit of both,” she lied to her date.
“I’m your guy.” Pip held up his beer glass in a toast.
He wasn’t, not permanently, but he’d fill a much-needed void. Smiling, Gia tapped her glass with his.
