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opened her eyes, he gave her a sheepish smile.
    “I guess that was uncalled-for, huh?”
    “You guess?” It was her turn to sneer at him.
    “When you said you were going away, I thought maybe it would be with me or Vanessa or Erin,” he said, mentioning her two friends from the restaurant where she used to work. 
    “Vanessa is pregnant and Erin moved two months ago,” Kennedy replied, dryly. 
    Brooks’s eyebrows raised in surprise.
    “She did? Vanessa is?”
    Kennedy huffed and glared at him.
    “I told you that! Remember? I wanted you to go with me to Erin’s going-away party, and you had to work. And I just went to Vanessa’s baby shower last weekend.”
    Brooks gave her a blank look, and she groaned in frustration.
    “Oh, I forgot, unless I’m wearing a white lab coat, whatever I say doesn’t matter,” she muttered.
    “You know that’s not true,” he said in his defense.
    “Do I?” She shook her head. “You don’t make it easy to think otherwise, Brooks.”
    They stared at each other in silence for a few minutes before Kennedy broke eye contact and closed her eyes again.
    “I’m sorry, Kennedy,” Brooks said in whisper. “For the comment, for not remembering about Vanessa’s pregnancy and Erin moving away. I’m sorry for making you feel like you don’t mean anything to me.”
    Kennedy tried to keep the tears behind her eyelids. She tried really hard, but it was pointless, her cheeks were wet.
    “I guess I’m just a little put out that you’re going away with Memphis, but you and I have never gone on a real vacation together yet”
    “Whose fault is that?” Kennedy wiped at her eyes. “You’re always working. You can’t even find time to go to a friend’s going-away party.”
    “Maybe I can take some time off,” he suggested, but Kennedy knew the offer was only halfhearted.
    “We both know you won’t do that,” she muttered, keeping her eyes locked on her knees.
    His silence only confirmed what she already knew.
    “Let me make it up to you now, then,” he said.
    “How do you plan to do that?” 
    She heard the rustle of clothes and smirked to herself. Of course he would think that would be making it up to her.
    “For starters,” Brooks said, dropping his hand into the warm water and caressing her calf. “I’m coming to your show. I’ll be the first one through the door if I have to be to prove to you how much you mean to me.”
    Kennedy peeked at him.
    “What else?”
    “That depends on if you let me join you,” he answered with a smile that, despite her being upset with him, made her stomach flip.
    “And if I do?” she said, playing the coy game. “What can you do in here that would make it up to me?”
    “Let me show you,” he murmured.
    She looked at him almost sadly.
    “Sex can’t make it up to me, Brooks,” she said.
    “I know that.” He exhaled and removed his hand from the water. “Maybe I should go to my place tonight.” He made a move to get up, and Kennedy reached for him.
    “Stay.”
    Brooks smiled down at her as he finished peeling his shirt off and made quick work of his pants and boxers.
    Kennedy shifted her legs to make room for him, and he slid into the bath with her.
    “Come here,” he told her once he was settled.
    Kennedy positioned her legs on either side of his hips and grabbed the side of the tub, pulling herself forward until her bottom was nestled on top of his legs and they were almost chest to chest.
    Brooks ran his fingers down her spine and she shivered. He cupped her ass, pulling her closer to him until she was pressed right against his growing arousal. His cock slipped through her folds, resting against her heat.
    “I hate fighting with you,” he whispered, tracing circles on the small of her back. 
    “I do, too.”
    “I know I can be a jackass about showing it, but I love you, Kennedy.”
    “Show me now,” she whispered as she wrapped her arms around his neck and brought her lips to his, slowly exploring his mouth.