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I shake my head. “You’re incorrigible.” I honestly don’t know what to say. I guess he has so much money that he’s used to spending a hundred thousand on books for a girl he’s only spent one night with. “What do you buy a girl on a third date?” I ask. “A yacht?”
“Drink your champagne and stop worrying.”
I take a sip, sniffing as the bubbles go up my nose. I’m worried. I agreed to come and see him because I assumed that even though I’m staying a few nights, we’d both accept that would be the end of it. But a gift like this doesn’t suggest he’s thinking the relationship is going to end after I go back to Gisborne. I think about the fact that Saxon took me to Kingpinz, and that Damon said,I heard a lot about you.
“Kip,” I say gently, “I thought you understood. I came here today because I thought you were just after some fun. I haven’t changed my mind. I can’t have a relationship.”
“Right,” he says. “Just really, really fantastic sex. Got it.”
I try not to laugh. “I’m serious.”
“Me too.”
“Kip…”
He sighs. “I know you have obligations, and I don’t expect anything. I just want to spend time with you. I like you a lot. You make me laugh, and I haven’t done a lot of that lately. You make me happy.” He shrugs.
What can I say to that? How can I criticize him after he said something so incredibly sweet?
“All right,” I say softly. “So what have you got planned for the next few days?”
“I was thinking you on top, then from behind, to start with,” he says.
I giggle, and that makes him laugh, and we’re both chuckling away by the time Wiremu returns with our mains.
“Seriously, though,” I scold as we heap chunky fries onto our plates.
“I am serious. I want to spend as much time as I can with you in bed.”
“I won’t be able to walk.”
“That’s the plan.” He grins.
“Saxon said he wants us to go around for dinner.”
“He’ll understand. He’s permanently knackered. I think Catie’s wearing him out.”
I smile. “What about Damon? Is he seeing anyone at the moment?”
“No one serious.” He cuts up his venison. “This time last year, his then girlfriend threw a Christmas party for all their friends and family. Halfway through, she stopped the music and proposed to him in the middle of the room.”
“Oh wow. That was brave.”
“Some might say idiotic. If she’d assumed he’d be too embarrassed to say no in front of everyone, she didn’t know him as well as she thought.”
“He turned her down?”
“He was annoyed that she tried to force his hand.”
“Well, you know all about that.”
His lips twist. “Yeah. He just turned around and walked out. The following day, he went home to discover that she’d cut up all his suits and tossed all his belongings onto the front lawn, and changed the locks.”
“Oh shit, really?”
“Neither Saxon nor I were surprised. She was mad as a box of frogs.”
I laugh. “So has he dated since?”
