You won't be my secret any longer. Should we upgrade dinner from pizza to something more worthy of the occasion? How about we haul out that case Cristal Stanton gave us?"
"Now you're talking."
"Movies? Anything, in particular, you want to watch?"
"Whatever you want. I wouldn't want to screw with your big-dumb-blow-'em-up movie genius."
I grinned, feeling better as I'd known I would after an hour with Maria. "You'll let me know if I'm too dense to figure out when you and Trey want to be alone."
"Ha! Don't worry about that. Your tempestuous love life is making me feel dull and boring. I could use a hot, sweaty bang with my own stud."
"You just had a maintenance closet romp a couple days ago!"
She sighed. "I'd nearly forgotten. How sad is that?"
"It isn't when your eyes are laughing."
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