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that you two had something more than that between you.”
    Jace’s stomach knotted—the word
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stirring the old guilt into a maelstrom. His gaze shifted to the sliding glass doors and the darkened beach beyond. “Yeah, well, I’m not done with the story yet.”

 
     
THREE
    “Sweets, you okay in there?” Daniel tapped on her door. “We missed you at the meeting this morning.”
    “I’ll be right out.” Evan twisted her arm behind her, trying to reach the zipper on the back of her sundress. She’d slept through her alarm and had woken up right when she was supposed to be in the middle of a breakfast meeting with Daniel and a potential vendor. Not good.
    After one more yoga-like move, she gave up and yanked open the door, finding Daniel leaning against the wall in the hallway, tapping out a text message and looking like an Armani model in his perfectly tailored slacks and dress shirt.
    “Can you help me with this?” she asked.
    “Hmm?” Daniel looked up from his phone, then pushed off the wall. “Oh, sure.”
    “Thanks.” She turned around and waited for him to zip up the dress. “I’m sorry about this morning. I must’ve slept through the alarm.”
    “Yeah, I was going to wake you, but you were dead to the world when I peeked in. Guess we all need a lazy morning every now and then, right?”
    She shot him a pointed glare over her shoulder, then turned and breezed past him into the suite’s living area.
    “What?” he asked, his tone innocent. “Did I say something wrong?”
    Marcus, Daniel’s business manager and boyfriend, looked up from his
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as she sank onto the couch across from him. He smirked. “Hey you, rough night?”
    Her gaze narrowed. “I don’t know, Mr. Yes-Please-Oh-God-Just-Like-That, what do you think?”
    Marcus gave her a sheepish grin. “Oh, you heard that?”
    She threw a pillow at him, and he ducked behind his newspaper.
    “You guys are killing me. I know you’re happy and in love and apparently rock each other’s world, but take pity on the girl in the other room who doesn’t have some sexy man heating up her sheets.”
    Daniel sat next to her and put his arm around her. “I’m sorry, sweets. We drank a little too much celebrating the TV deal and got carried away. We didn’t mean to keep you awake.”
    “But look.” Marcus lifted a steaming cup from the side table. “I went out and got your favorite fancy coffee for you. Does that help?”
    “Marginally.” She sighed and let her head rest against Daniel’s shoulder.
    “Is everything else okay?” Daniel asked. “You never miss a meeting, even if you didn’t get a lot of sleep.”
    “I’m fine.”
    Daniel rubbed her bare arm and looked down at her, his all-knowing brown eyes evaluating her. “Are you sure that’s all? You know if that new medication isn’t working, I can talk to Dr. Barnes about getting you something different.”
    Oh, great, here we go. Daniel had been her best friend for too long, and paired with his psych degree, he was a formidable force at poking past her shields. “I don’t need a different medication.”
    She didn’t want any medication, for that matter. She’d weaned herself off those horrid antidepressants three months earlier. But she hadn’t quite told Daniel that part yet. She’d planned to first prove how well she was doing off them before breaking the news to Mr. Overprotective. Unfortunately, her behavior last night wasn’t exactly a billboard advertisement for mental stability.
    “We saw the empty tequila bottles,” Marcus added, his tone gentle. “It’s not like you to drink like that.”
    “Oh, my God. Would you two just stop?” She shrugged from beneath Daniel’s grasp with a huff and rose from the couch, grabbing her coffee from Marcus on the way up. “Seriously, guys, I’m not in the mood for Freud and his trusty sidekick. I couldn’t sleep and listening to you guys had me all keyed up. So I had a few drinks and took a walk on the beach