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“Okay, fine—!” Paige’s face turns a bright red as she spins in my direction. “We had a good time. Now would you please keep it down?” she whispers.
“Said the guests in the suite next door,” I quip.
“It was one night,” she says. “One night of loud, rambunctious lovemaking, and I see no reason we should dwell on that any further.”
“Wait, lovemaking?” I repeat.
“Yes.”
“Just say sex, Paige.”
She stiffens. “No.”
I squint. “Say sex.”
“No.”
I lean closer to her. “Sex.”
She flinches. “Stop it.”
I chuckle as I sit back. Well, that’s cute.
“I don’t date hotel employees,” she says. “The morning after we…”
“Made sweet love.”
“I had a moment of clarity,” she says, swallowing hard. “So, yes. I ghosted you, and I apologize for that. I moved on when I should have said something. What happened between us that night was a random blip. Nothing more. It was just some…” she lowers her voice to the faintest of whispers, “good sex.”
“Great sex,” I say.
“Okay sex.”
I frown. “You downgraded?”
“I did.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re annoying me.”
I laugh. “Fair enough.”
After a moment, she smiles. It’s not the bright, friendly smile I crave, but it’ll do for now. “I’m sorry if I’ve been hostile,” she says. “I don’t mean to be. This whole thing just took me by surprise, is all.”
The plane slowly levels off and I take a deep breath to relax. I release my grip on the armrest, flexing my stiff fingers once before extending my hand toward her.
“Friends?” I ask.
She shakes my hand. “Professional friends,” she says.
We let go, and Paige looks forward at the paperwork in front of her.
I lean toward her an inch. I just can’t help myself. “It was great, though, right?” I whisper.
She frowns and rolls her eyes behind her glasses.
Oh, yeah.
