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breath and scrolled through his missed calls, touching his thumb to the number he’d sent to silent only minutes earlier. He didn’t mind doing it, but he’d be an asshole if he didn’t feel bad for canceling on any woman for another.
    â€œHey,” he said when she answered.
    He listened to her chat for a moment before consciously changing the tone of his voice, talking more quietly and in a deeper register.
    â€œI hate to do this to you, darlin’, but I’m not gonna make it tonight,” Chase said. “Something’s come up.”
    She sounded annoyed but he continued, undeterred. He didn’t care if Hope couldn’t find a babysitter—there was no way in hell he was going to sit through a night with one woman and be thinking about another.
    â€œBaby, I’m sorry. There’s nothing I can do about it, but I’ll call you, okay?”
    Chase cringed. He shouldn’t have said that, although technically he might call her. Maybe if Hope skipped out on him and he needed someone to take his mind off the fact they hadn’t had a rematch.
    He uttered a final apology and shoved his phone back in his jeans, standing stock-still for a moment and indulging in watching Hope again. She was bent forward, her long hair tucked behind one ear as she studied something he couldn’t see. It had only been one night. One night that had started out as a drunken tumble and ended up as hours of pleasuring each other, sweaty bodies and tangled limbs, then even longer lying awake and talking until it was morning. And then they’d woken late, and everything had seemed different somehow when reality had hit.
    For all those reasons, he should just be happy to see an old friend and forget all about that night. Sleeping together had ruined everything and it would only make things awkward all over again. But he wanted her. Chase wanted one night with her again, to hold her in his arms as he licked and sucked every part of her, rocked into her until she moaned. His memory often let him down, but there was nothing about that night that hadn’t stuck to his brain like glue.
    *   *   *
    â€œWhy did this take us so long?”
    Chase chuckled, lazily stroking Hope’s arm. “Because we didn’t want to complicate things.”
    â€œOr maybe because we were both too stubborn to be the first to make a move.”
    Chase leaned over to kiss her, staring down into Hope’s eyes. They were naked and sweaty still, lying on top of the bed, sheets strewn around them.
    â€œYou sure you won’t stay?”
    â€œWould you leave your family and ranch behind and come to Canada?”
    He sighed. “No.”
    â€œThen you know the answer.”
    â€œSo this is good-bye?” He didn’t know why he’d asked when he already knew the answer, but he still wanted to hear her say it. Part of him hoped she’d eventually cave in and decide to stay in Texas, but then Hope didn’t do anything she didn’t want to do.
    â€œThis is good-bye,” she whispered back, pushing him down, then straddling him, leaning down to press a hot kiss to his lips.
    â€œWe better make it count then, huh?” he murmured back, fisting a hand in her messy long hair.
    â€œYeah, that’s exactly what we’re gonna do.”
    *   *   *
    â€œSo what do you think?”
    Hope jumped at the sound of Chase’s deep, husky drawl. She pushed her hair out of her eyes, a few strands having escaped the rough ponytail she’d hastily tied it in. She rubbed an arm over her face and tried not to squint into the bright sunshine.
    â€œThey’re all in fantastic condition.”
    Chase laughed and before she could ask him what was so funny, he’d closed the distance between them, his big body way too close to hers as he reached out and brushed his thumb gently across her cheek. Her lips parted until she forced them shut, her skin