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me dinner. I said, yes, and then—” A vision of Ethan’s naked torso rising above her flashed into her mind. Suddenly, the sweatshirt she’d worn to ward off the chill of the plane felt overly warm.
    “Oh, you can’t stop there. How was he?”
    “He was charming, intelligent…handsome.” She reached her gate and double-checked that she had at least fifteen more minutes before having to board the plane.
    “And…?” Tab prompted. “Come on, get to the good stuff. How was he in bed?”
    Jasmine sighed. “You’re so nosy. I had a good time, and he was a dream in the sack. Is that what you want me to tell you?”
    “Only if it’s true.” Tab, undoubtedly, had a gloating smile on her face.
    Jasmine hurried over to an empty seat next to the window facing the runway. She sat down and rolled her bags near her feet. “Yeah, Tab. That’s the truth.” A small smile nudged up the corners of her mouth. “He knew when to let me have my way and when to take control. I don’t know. I felt taken care of. Worshipped. He even brought me coffee in bed this morning and offered to make me breakfast.”
    She caught the glance from the woman sitting next to her. Crossing her legs, Jasmine angled her body more toward the window.
    “You lucky bitch,” Tab said. “Now I’m jealous. When are you going to see him again?”
    “I’m not.”
    “What? I know the way you met him isn’t your usual thing, but it sounds like the two of you had chemistry. What did he say when you were having breakfast?”
    Jasmine focused her eyes on the plane pulling up to the gate. “I didn’t talk to him this morning.”
    “But you said he brought you coffee and made you breakfast.”
    “No.” A twinge of remorse made her breastbone tingle. “I said he brought me coffee, and he offered to make me breakfast. He went out for a run before I got up.”
    “And when he got back what happened?” Tab asked. “Or did he not come back?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “You don’t know?” Tab was silent, and then she gasped. “You didn’t.”
    “Just let it go. It’s not what you think.”
    “Think?” Tab’s tone rose in irritation. “What is there to think about? He brought you coffee. He told you he was coming back to make you breakfast. You don’t need Einstein to figure it out. Did you at least leave him your phone number?”
    Jasmine looked down, feeling just as squeezed as the wad of gum stuck between her chair and the wall. “No, but I did leave him a note.”
    “Without your phone number—well, what the hell did it say? ‘Thanks for a fantastic time and the great f—’?”
    “Don’t you dare say it, and lower your voice. I don’t even have you on speakerphone and half the airport can hear you. You don’t have to be so crude.”
    “I’m crude?” Tab’s voice grew louder. “Well, I’m not the one who ran out after a night of mind-blowing —”
    “I never said it was mind-blowing.”
    “Well, it must have been, because you have completely lost your good-man instincts. He fed you dinner. He delivered great sex. He made you coffee. He even planned on serving you breakfast.”
    “But I —”
    Tab ignored her and kept right on going without taking a breath. “He’s gorgeous and probably has a body to die for. Not to mention he saved you from some desperate pervert in a bar, but what do you do?” Her soft lilt changed into a full Texas twang. “You hike up your skirt and run like a hooker from a priest.”
    Jasmine opened her mouth but held back her first snappy comeback. “You know what, Tab? I wasn’t going to stick around and embarrass myself over your birthday dare booty call. That’s what made it awkward in the first place.”
    “Oh, now you want to blame me? I don’t think so, sister. This isn’t about Ethan or the dare. It’s about Greg leaving you for some woman he knocked up, and you not giving any other guy a chance because of it. There. Glare at me all you want. Yes, I said it.”
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