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“Tell me something good about yourself.”

He flinches. “What?”

“You heard me. Tell me something good about yourself.”

“Larinda… What are you?—”

I cut him off with a hard look while my palm grazes the front of his jeans.

He sucks in a breath, his eyes fluttering closed before fixing on me in confusion.

I remove my hand. “Like I said, you need to earn it. So let’s hear it. Give me something.”

“This is stupid.”

“Maybe. You know what else is stupid? Passing on this”—I wave over myself with playful cockiness—“because you’re too chicken to play a sex game.”

His expression is too cute.

“Oh, this is a sex game? I’m sure people are crashing porn sites in search of smoking hot positive affirmation foreplay.”

“Okay, fine,” I say with a shrug. “I’m going to grab a drink before bed. You want anything?”

I make a dramatic move to climb off him, not even a little surprised when he grips my hips to stop me.

“Ugh! Whatever,” he mumbles.

I settle back and lift a brow. “Great. So what is it? Tell me something good about yourself.”

“I have a clean driving record.”

I search his face for a second, then snort a laugh when his grin breaks. I mean, technically he followed the rules. Guess we have to start somewhere.

With great ceremony, I reach toward my foot and slowly remove a sock.

“Wait…” he says with suspicion. “Is that how this works? It’s like some weird version of strip poker?”

“Yep.” I drop the sock over the side of the bed. “You want to try again?”

His hungry gaze scours my body, and I innocently drag a finger down my shirt between my breasts. “Unless you want to stop now and drink that bottled water?”

His glare is too adorable to count as ornery.

“You’re evil.”

“Opportunistic. Clock is ticking, lover boy. Tell me something good about yourself.”

He clenches his jaw, but I already see him caving. “I have green eyes.”

I roll mine. “Nope.”

“What? It’s true.”

“Yeah, and the game isn’t ‘tell me a random fact on your driver’s license.’ It’s ‘tell me something good.’”

“Green eyes can be good.”

“They can be. Are yours?”

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