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Rosario looked over at Dana. “You could be right.”
“What are you two talking about?” Dana asked.
“Soak your feet,” Rosario told Siobhan before sliding her stool over to sit in front of Dana. She patted the footrest and Dana pulled her feet out of the water. “Siobhan and I have both been out with Levi. He’s a really good kisser but his heart wasn’t in it. Siobhan agrees.”
“Yep,” she said. “We each went out with him a couple of times but nothing came of it.”
“Something did,” Dana said dryly. “Rosario says he’s a good kisser.” Which he was. A very, very good kisser. Not that she’d kissed him in, oh, about eight months.
“Oh, that,” Siobhan said, waving it away. “It was a good-night kiss and didn’t mean a thing to him. Because,” she paused dramatically, “we knew there was a woman in his past he was still hung up on. And come to find out, there was.”
“And it’s you,” Rosario added with satisfaction. She started working on Dana’s feet. Apparently finished with the conversation.
Wisely ignoring rating Levi’s kissing abilities, Dana said, “He’s not hung up on me. That was over a long time ago. It all happened when I was working on the Wildcat Tower. And for a short while after I left.” Except for those two times…
“Tell the truth. Aren’t you just a tiny bit interested in him?” Siobhan asked. “The guy is hot, he’s nice, and he’s a freaking billionaire. What else do you want?”
“I was shocked to find out he’s a billionaire,” Rosario interjected. “He doesn’t act like it. Or like I imagine a billionaire would act. I mean, for one thing he’s living in Whiskey River. I love it but a metropolis it isn’t.”
“No, he’s not your ordinary billionaire. If there is such a thing.” To hell with it. “Our breakup wasn’t good.”
“Did you two ever talk about it?” Siobhan asked.
Dana shrugged. “Not really.” Actually, not at all.
“Maybe you should. Have you seen him since? Besides when you came here to do the airport?”
She felt her face heat. Give me a break. I’m blushing?
“I’ll take that as a yes,” Rosario said.
“They didn’t mean anything,” she rushed to say. “We both knew they were a mistake by the next morning.”
Both women were staring at her with their mouths open. “They? More than once?”
“Twice,” she admitted. “The first time when I moved back to Texas. And then when I first came back to Whiskey River to work on the airport.”
“If you thought it was a mistake the first time why did you do it again?” Rosario asked.
Dana wished she’d never brought this up, but she had so she might as well finish it. “Because I couldn’t resist, damn it.”
“Obviously neither could he,” Siobhan said.
“It was—they were—just a fling. Not even a fling, but one night. We made a deal to stay away from each other since we seemed to be totally stupid around each other. And then he asked me to help with his house. And now I’m going to be around him all the time. And damn it, he’s still—”
“Hot?” Siobhan asked.
“Sexy?” Rosario added.
“Irresistible,” Dana said. She didn’t hold out a lot of hope that they would resist each other. No, they hadn’t had sex yet, but the spark, the electricity between them was still very much in evidence.
“Yet you want to resist him, right?” Siobhan said.
“I need to resist him,” she corrected. “If I was dating someone it would be easier. But Levi knows I’m not dating anyone currently.”
“You’ve dated a lot of men around here. None of them for long.”
True. Because once she dated someone more than two or three times, they started to want more. And she didn’t.
