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interested. I’m furious, so thanks for catching me, but back off.”
    Wow. “Take it easy. My presence on your bed is purely professional. Doctor? Remember?”
    Cali’s delicate jaw clenched as she blew out an angry breath and refused to meet his eyes.
    “Someone must have gotten under your skin good. Look, I didn’t know you worked for Amanda, but, honestly, does it really matter now?” From the look of her scowl, Jake gathered it did.
    “Are you kidding?” Cali gritted out, flashing him a murderous glare.
    “This is because of last night?” he asked, confused by the overt hostility. “Or did I miss something else?”
    Maybe she was as worried about Amanda as he was. But her lashing out at him didn’t make a world of sense. It was an accident. One of fate’s little mess-ups you lived with and got past.
    If she was miffed he could understand it. Sulking or in a bit of a pout, sure. Women got that way. But Cali wasn’t any of those. She looked as though she wanted to flay him alive. Considering he’d just carried her, princess-style, across her suite while she dripped blood down his sleeve, and then spent the next five minutes cleaning her minor but messy wounds, a smidgeon of gratitude seemed in order. But, no, she was in a snit.
    Emotional and unreasonable, he thought with an inward shiver. Yeah, definitely no more kissing. Right about now he was wishing last night hadn’t taken place either. Being tied, however loosely, to a woman with an irrational temper wasn’t high on his list. Add in the complication of Amanda having a vested interest in this woman’s happiness and productivity, and things could get awkward.
    It wouldn’t be fair to any of them. Time to neutralize the situation. Bring in some reason. “Look, I know you’re angry,” he began in an appeasing tone, reminded again of why superficial non-relationships so suited him. “This is an uncomfortable situation for both of us. Last night we had a momenttogether, and today, all things considered, it’s clearly a good thing that it didn’t go any further than it did. Really, what happened is no big deal.”
    A fair acknowledgment on his part.
    “No big deal?” Her lip curled in distaste.
    “Okay, maybe that was rude,” he muttered, the dread he associated with unreasonable women setting in. What was he supposed to say?

CHAPTER FOUR
    C ALI felt her stomach congeal. “Talk about an understatement.”
    “Yeah, well….” Jake’s jaw shifted, his mouth pulling to the side as he watched her for a second and then shrugged. “It is what it is.”
    Excuse me ? She pushed up to her elbows to glare at him. What the hell did that mean? The man had just been caught cheating. How dared he be so blasé? This was bad for her—of that there was no doubt. But for Jake? Didn’t he care that his marriage was at stake?
    “Anyway, do you need some help with your bags?” he asked, obviously wanting to wrap up the encounter as quickly as possible.
    Please. “Oh, I think you’ve done enough already,” she bit out, her panic and temper on the rise. It took everything she had not to kick his two-timing shin.
    To think she’d been fantasizing about this guy, aching for more of him…and he was married ! He’d made her the other woman . Her instincts stank. She flopped back on the bed, and to her horror tears began to well at the corners of her eyes.
    “Cali,” he said from the door. His voice low, oozing understanding. Manipulator . “I can see you’re—”
    With a tight shake of her head, she threw up a hand to cut him off. “No. Not a word.”
    She felt weak, as though the disappointment was physically weighing her down. And it wasn’t just over him. Sure, Jake was gorgeous—even being a disgusting pig of a cheater couldn’t take that away. But it was his personality as much as his incredible eye-candy appeal she’d found so attractive.
    It hurt to be so wrong about him. But, more than being disappointed in who he was, she was disappointed