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just like you got what you needed from me. No need to discuss it any further.”
    “This is what you call a friendship? You’ve been ignoring me for the past several weeks. Friends talk to each other, friends tell each other what’s going on in their lives. You don’t fucking talk to me.”
    I was starting to get pissed off again. Not only was Kyler acting like a needy estrogen-filled female, he’d got me all hot and bothered and then he just wanted to talk. Well, I was done talking. Kyler may know how to strum a guitar like a pro, but I know how to press his buttons and bend to my will.
    “Ky?”
    “What?” he snapped at me.
    “Come back over here,” I said in a seductive tone.
    His eyebrow arched and he looked at me cautiously. “What are you up to, Harper?”
    His frustration was slowly slipping away, and now he was just trying to figure out what I was doing. Well, when I was done he wouldn’t know what hit him.
    I stood up and took three small strides toward him until I was standing directly in front of him. Looking up at him through my long dark lashes, his scent washed over me and my need for him picked up right where it left off.
    “You started something a few minutes ago,”— I reached up and gently laid my hand on his chest— “and I want you to finish it.”
    His pupils dilated and he groaned low in his throat. I was getting to him, and at least he’d shut up. Leaning in to him, I brought my mouth up to his and said against his lips, “I need you to finish it.”
    Before I was able to press my lips to his, he took my hand in both of his and pulled his face away, standing at his full six foot two.
    “I want you to listen to me. There is more behind your desire for me, and I want to prove it. I have a proposition for you.”
    What.
    The.
    Fuck?
    I was practically throwing myself at him, and he couldn’t seem to let this go. Jesus! Next time I’ll just ask him to remove his tampon before he comes around me.
    “I’m sure you do.” I tried to step away from him but he held me firmly. “Let’s hear it.”
    “I want you to come out to New York with me.” He tilted his head to the side and raised his eyebrows, silently telling me to shut up and let him finish. “Come out there and see that it’s just lights and a show. The women that are out there … they aren’t real, Harper. I haven’t been with a single woman since you, and I plan on keeping it that way. But I also want you to see that there is more between us than you’re allowing yourself to feel.”
    I rolled my eyes. “Give me a break, Ky.”
    “Here’s the part I know you’ll love. I want you to try to not come on to me.”
    My mouth parted in shock before I burst out laughing. “You think I can’t control myself around you? Is that it? Oh boy, you really are a delusional chick.”
    “Did you just call me a chick?” I could see the same Kyler from back in high school, cocking his head to the side, scrunching his nose up, and looking like a dumb blonde.
    “Yeah, I did. You’re being such a girl about this.” What I didn’t say was that he was also being smart. I didn’t like losing a challenge, and he knew it. “If you think you can drag me out to New York just to prove to me that there is more here than just sexual chemistry, then fine. But don’t cry about it when you see that I’m right.”
    A self-assured look came over his face.
    “Good. I’m leaving to go back first thing in the morning. You fly out later that day, and I’ll have everything taken care of.” He leaned down and kissed my cheek. The contact sent sparks through my body. He brought his lips to the shell of my ear and with a feather light touch, he whispered, “Just remember I caught you when you fell, Harper.”
    He pulled away and turned to walk out the door. “What do you mean, ‘when I fell?’”
    Kyler turned around. “When you finally realize that you’ve fallen for me … remember that I caught you, and I’ll keep hold of you … and