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“Did you play?”
I felt the corners of my mouth tighten. “Just with my brothers. I ran track in junior and senior high school. Football would’ve taken up too much time, and I had to keep an eye on my grades. Had to keep them up.”
Out of the corner of my eye, I caught her looking at me with the kind of hard look that made me feel like she could see all the way inside me. Fortunately, we had arrived at her apartment building, and I pulled into the parking lot.
“Thanks,” she said, reaching for the door. She stopped before opening it. “Do you want to come up? My roommate will be at work until late.”
This woman had surprised me more tonight than most other women had in days or weeks.
“You want me to come inside?”
She grinned at me. “I don’t know about you, but all that tension has me pretty wound up. I need to get rid of some excess energy, and I wouldn’t mind doing that with you.”
My night was suddenly looking much,muchbetter.