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go with you. Help you carry things back. I need a
drink anyway."
    Gia shrugged, walking toward the bar. She waited patiently
while they placed the order, laughing when Josh eyed the Amber Bock they had on
tap and then ordered a martini instead. He turned to her with a questioning
look at her laugh.
    "I'll take an Amber Bock too, please," she told
the bartender.
    "I thought you didn't drink," Josh said.
    "I don't usually. I figured if I got the beer you could
sneak sips when no one was looking, lawyer boy."
    "Huh?"
    "Well, I saw you eyeing the tap when he poured the last
one, but you ordered a martini. So, do you hide everything from Deb, or just
the fun stuff?"
    "Yeah, about that... thanks for not ratting me out. I
just haven't seen her much the last couple days. It's been hectic at work. I'll
tell her, but not here."
    "Not my business. You tell her whatever you want. She's
marrying you, not me. But, I gotta say, you should've ordered the beer, at
least. It's probably going to suck rocks if you can't even come home and enjoy
your guilty pleasure once she moves in permanently." She smirked at him,
watching his discomfort as he shrugged his shoulders and looked away. Served
him right. "I'm betting there's at least a six pack hiding behind the
fifty year old Scotch you keep for Daddy, right?"
    Josh turned and glared at her, his blue eyes shooting fire.
She just kept grinning, finally wiggling her eyebrows at him. At last he
laughed.
    "Yes, I have beer in a small fridge I keep in my
basement. Deb used to drink beer on occasion too, but now it is apparently
'uncivilized'. She knows I have it, but I don't rub it in her face.
Happy?"
    "Always. But, I do take great pleasure in breaking your
unshakeable calm, lawyer boy."
    At her teasing comment, his eyes got hot, shooting out a
whole different type of fire now. With that one look, she was reminded of that
stupid kiss from the other night. The one she swore she would forget. Yeah
right, like that was going to happen.
    Josh leaned closer, his eyes staring straight into hers. He
was doing a damn fine job of convincing her he could actually see into her soul.
With his lips just a couple inches from her ear he whispered, just loud enough
she could barely make out the words. "If anyone could break the calm, Gia,
it would definitely be you."
    While she was still trying to recover her breath, he scooped
up three of the drinks and headed back to the table.
    She slowly grabbed the rest and turned to follow. She pushed
all thoughts of Josh out of her mind and enjoyed the evening with friends. She
flirted with a couple of cute guys, played a little bit of pool, even danced
with a couple of the single guys there. All in all it was a great evening. She
just had to ignore the fact that she really wanted to kiss her friend’s fiancé.
     
    It was after one by the time Gia left the bar. Since it was
so late, Blake walked her home before heading off to his own house across town.
Once she made it into her house, locked the door and crashed on her bed, she
let the barriers fall. She tried to sort out when and why everything had seemed
to change between them. It didn't seem possible that the constant attraction
she'd felt had finally made itself known to Josh after eight years of sniping
at each other. She'd always been able to push his buttons, but not in a sexual
way. Not that she'd ever really tried. Gia was known to be a little bit of a
wild child. She was loud, flamboyant, a ‘do what I want and to hell with you’
kind of girl. Always had been. She'd had her share, or more than her share, of
lovers although not nearly as many as everyone else thought. She had very
deliberately kept her feelings for Josh a secret, buried deep beneath layers of
sarcasm and attitude. Often she was even able to keep them from herself. So,
how had he picked up on her desire for him?
    This had to be about more than just that tattoo. More than
just the kiss. Why had he kissed her in the first place? Was she sending