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ideas.”
    He grinned. “I’m sure you do. That’s really cool.” He coughed. “Not the human trafficking part, but the part where you want to help stop it.”
    He didn’t speak and neither did she.
    Then she felt that thing. That connection she’d rarely ever felt with anyone. She had only felt it a couple of times with Dillon. It was that feeling that passes between two people when they are completely on the same page.
    He cleared his throat and looked away, grinning. “So, uh, anyway, what do you really do?”
    “I work as a personal assistant for a diva.” She thought of Marcia and grinned. Now that was the truth.
    The side of his lip cocked up. “Nice.”
    “What do you do?”
    Cocking his head to the side, he made a face. “Invest. I’m an investor.”
    “And you like it?” She asked sarcastically.
    He grinned. “It’s fine.”
    For a moment, she didn’t know what to say, and it felt awkward.
    She nodded to the book. “So overall, did you think it was a good book?”
    He shrugged. “It’s okay.”
    Her blood stirred. She always liked a good debate. “Just okay? Why?”
    Putting up a hand, he took on the gesture of a college professor. “The book totally discounts that sometimes there’s a spark. Something intangible between two people. Something that can’t be measured. That’s what a relationship feeds on. It doesn’t matter how much you try to quantify the relationship. It just works. Doesn’t matter if the couple fights, has different backgrounds, sees nothing the same way. Even if they don’t understand the basic laws of attraction, for some reason they are attracted to each other. Because of that, it works.”
    Electricity passed between them, conducted easily through the burbling water. “Oh.”
    “Do you agree?”
    “With what?”
    “Spark?”
    The feelings racing through her made it hard to think. “Sure, there needs to be chemistry.”
    Leaning closer, he shook his head. “No. I mean pure insight in the moment.” He furrowed his brow. “Honestly, this is the first time I’ve thought about it, but maybe there’s more to love at first sight than I knew.”
    London’s heart raced. Spark was definitely happening.
    He scooted closer and seemed so relaxed.
    London was shocked to see him move so naturally into her space. He said, “I’ve never believed in immediate attraction, insight, or love. But now I’m rethinking everything.”
    She blinked, her heart still hammering away in her rib cage like the seven dwarfs pounding away in the diamond mine. “I guess.” She couldn’t help but look at his lips.
    He looked at hers. Then, without warning, he shook his head as if to clear it and pulled back out of her space, retreating back against the edge. “But that’s crazy. Right?”
    It unnerved her that she was having this kind of reaction to a guy she’d just met. Hadn’t actually met yet. “I … guess.”
    It felt like forever passed between them as they both stared into each other’s eyes.
    Then he scooted back into her space.
    She smelled faint cologne on him, and the intensity of the moment grew.
    “Can I kiss you?”
    She found it funny he would ask and even funnier that she wanted to say yes.
    “Why are you grinning like that?”
    Her heart beat at hyper speed. “Because I’m not this kind of girl.”
    Gently, he reached up and drew a line from her ear, down her cheek, and to her lips. “What kind of girl is that?”
    She was on fire, every part of her wanted to kiss him. “The kind that meets a random guy in a hot tub and kisses him.”
    He smiled and leaned in. “I’m not this kind of guy either. Let’s test out my spark theory.”
    When their lips met, it felt like more than a spark to her. It was a whole slew of Fourth of July fireworks.
    Explosive and brilliant.
    When he pulled back, he smiled.
    London couldn’t stop herself from smiling too. Warmth filled her. “Wowza.”
    He laughed. “Now that’s a good reaction to a kiss in a hot tub.”
    She