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Did he consider her sexy? Did she dare ask? If she did, would he answer truthfully? “We’re usually nerds, too.”

“Nerds can be fun.”

“Are you a nerd?”

“I could be considered one. You work with words. I work with numbers.”

“An accountant?”

“Not quite, but close enough. So…if what’s going on inside isn’t your scene, why did you come here?”

When he tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear, her heart fluttered. Normally she didn’t like any stranger touching her without permission. So, why didn’t his touch bother her? Was it because of where they were and what the resort was about?

“To the party or to the resort?”

He cocked his head. “I’ll take an answer for both.”

“I don’t know.” That wasn’t a lie.

With his hands now on his hips, he studied her. “Have you ever done anything like this before?”

He couldn’t tell she was out of her element? Or was he only being kind?

“No.”

“Did you book your stay because you were curious?”

She released a dry laugh. “Pretty expensive curiosity.” At the time, she was forcing herself to be brave. Once again, tonight proved she was anything but.

“Are you curious about this kind of life? Or are you here to discover your deepest, darkest desires?”

“I don’t have any dark desires,” she admitted. She had desires, but didn’t consider any of them dark.

She frowned. Or were they? She had no idea what was considered taboo and what wasn’t. At least in the real world and not in a fictional one.

“But you want to discover the real you who’s been hiding deep inside.”

She jerked up one shoulder. “Maybe I simply needed a change.”

The corners of his very beautiful mouth curled up slightly. “Said the woman who broke off a long-term relationship full of shitty sex.”

She stared at him, not sharing his amusement.

“C’mon. Admit it.”

“I wasn’t in a long-term relationship.”

“You mean recently,” he guessed. “Now you’re here looking for what had been missing from your former…whatever.”

She wasn’t getting into her past relationship with a stranger.

She was in her thirties. She wasn’t a virgin. She dated here and there. But it had taken her a while to scrape free from her former boyfriend. He had been determined to marry Cara. She had been determined not to.

But what this man guessed was true. The dry and uninspired sex had left something to be desired. She usually had to fake an orgasm to get Glenn to finish and get off her.

However, their problems weren’t only abouttheirsex life, but the fact Glenn had been having sex with someone else. Someone Cara was close to. She hoped her best friend found that the shitty sex with Glenn was worth destroying their ten-year-long friendship over.

The smartest decision she made was to keep her own place and not move in with him. It made breaking it off much easier.