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She stood at the opposite side, fidgeting with a loose gem on her purse.
‘Is your offer still open?’ she asked, unable to meet his eyes.
‘That depends,’ he said and she couldn’t keep her gaze off him any longer. He was back to folding his arms. ‘Who was that poser you were with?’
She told him everything in a rush, the football game, the way he was too into himself and how he bored her to tears, then came the hard bit. ‘He suggested something that I never thought of, actually. He thought I was looking for a … holiday fling.’
‘And you weren’t?’ Zack asked, still not relaxing his rigid pose.
Time for brutal honesty. ‘No. Not with him, anyway.’
He put his elbows on the table, leaning forward with a slight grin. She relaxed a bit now that he had. Had he’d been jealous of Matt?
‘With me?’ he asked.
Nerves made her mouth go a million miles a minute. ‘Well, I said what happened in LA was a mistake and it wasn’t, not really because I wanted it but I was scared I’d get in too deep and end up hurting you and you’re my best friend’s cousin and she’d hate me forever but I never thought of a fling, you know, something with a time limit so now I thought I’d see if it’s something you wanted.’
He surprised her by laughing. ‘I barely understood that, you know.’
Her cheeks burned.
‘But I got the gist. So, you want a short term thing with a time limit?’
Ciara nodded. ‘We’re leaving for Paris in a few days which isn’t as easy to get to as Miami.’ Then she blurted out a question without thinking. ‘Why are you here?’
His jaw set. ‘I saw the pictures Elle put up on Instagram. You looked smashed, Ciara. I was worried you would all get into trouble again.’
She squeezed her eyes shut and hid her face with her hands. ‘Oh god, I knew they’d be bad.’
He was in front of her then, pulling her hands away. His grin just made her face get hotter. ‘Hey, everyone has been smashed at some point in their lives. Don’t worry about it. Anyway, I can see you got home unharmed.’
‘We’re big girls you know. We can look after ourselves,’ she insisted, using irritation to hide the mortification.
‘Definitely grown up,’ he agreed, placing his hands on her hips and sliding them up to rest just below her breasts. She trembled, wishing the cotton dress wasn’t in the way. ‘But not big, not at all.’
She smiled, remembering when she thought he called her fat.
‘And I’d like to be with you while you’re here. I have a condition though,’ he said.
Frowning, she asked, ‘What condition?’
‘If I only have you for a few days, then I want all the perks of a fling.’
She agreed straight away, happy for them to start having all those perks right now.
***
‘Some perk,’ she grumbled as Zack muscled a moped out of the massive garage.
She assumed he’d drag her straight to his bedroom since he was half naked already, but as soon as she’d agreed he’d kissed her nose, told her to wait there and then returned from his room fully dressed, saying he was taking her out.
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