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he wasn’t sure if he should use it. It felt presumptuous. It didn’t feel as if he should treat it like his house anymore.
    “I must have left my purse at the shop,” she said, trying to get up.
    “Sit still for a minute,” he said.
    It wasn’t an order, just a suggestion, but she folded her good arm over the one in the sling. He half expected she might stick her tongue out at him, but she didn’t.
    “You’ve lost weight,” he said, watching her sit on the stoop.
    “A little,” she admitted, as if she was giving away a state secret. “You know me. Obsessed about my projects. Right now it’s launching Baby Boomer. Sometimes I forget to eat.”
    He frowned at that. She was always obsessed about something. Once, it had been about him.
    “What’s your sudden panic to get a divorce?” he asked.
    She choked and glared at him. “Over a year is not a sudden panic.”
    “Have you met someone?” His voice sounded oddly raw in his own ears.
    Jessica searched his face but he kept his features cool.
    “Not that it is any of your business, but no.” She hesitated. “Have you?”
    He snorted. “No, I’m cured, thanks.”
    “I am, too!” She hesitated again, not, he guessed, wanting to appear too interested in his life. “I suppose you’re playing the field, then?”
    “What? What does that mean, exactly?”
    “Seeing lots of women.”
    He snorted and allowed himself to feel the insult of it. Jessica was painting him as a playboy? “You have to know me better than that.”
    “You live in that building. It has a reputation.”
    “The condominium has a reputation?” he asked, astounded. “The building I live in? River’s Edge?”
    “It does,” she said firmly. “Lots of single people live there. Very wealthy single people. It has a pool and that superswanky penthouse party room. The apartments are posh.”
    “How do you know all that?” he asked.
    She turned red. “Don’t get the idea I’ve been sneaking around spying on you.”
    “That is the furthest from any idea I would ever get about you,” he said drily.
    “The newspaper did a feature on it.”
    “I must have missed that.”
    “It seems like a good place for a single guy to live. One who is, you know, in pursuit of fun and freedom.”
    That was what Jessica thought he was in pursuit of? Jeez. Well, let her think it. How could it be that she didn’t know him at all?
    “Rest assured—” he could hear the stiffness in his voice “—I live there because it is a stone’s throw from work, which by the way is where I spend the majority of my waking hours.” He hesitated, not wanting to appear too interested in her life, either. “So are
you
playing the field?”
    “Don’t be ridiculous,” she said.
    “How come it’s ridiculous when I ask but not when you ask?” And there it was, the tension between them, always waiting to be fanned to life.
    “I already told you I’m obsessed with my business. I don’t have time for anything else.”
    “So you are not in a new relationship, and apparently not looking for one. You want a divorce why?”
    She sighed with what he felt was unnecessary drama. “We can’t just go on indefinitely like this, Kade.”
    He wanted to ask why not but he didn’t.
    “All those hours I spend working are paying off. My business is moving to the next level.”
    He raised an eyebrow at her.
    “I did over a hundred thousand in internet sales last year.”
    He let out a low appreciative whistle. “That’s good.”
    “I think it could be double that this year with the storefront opening.”
    So she was moving up as well as on. Well, good for her. No sense admitting, not even to himself, how happy he was that her moving on did not involve a new guy moving in.
    “My lawyer has advised me to tie up any loose ends.”
    He managed, barely, not to wince at being referred to as a loose end. “So your lawyer is afraid of what? That you’ll be wildly successful and I, as your legal partner, will come in and