“You think I’m here to get laid?” he asked. “Now? After you just sewed someone’s insides back together, and I helped mop up the aftermath?”“Yes,” she said. “That is exactly what I think. Because you are Jace, and you deal with your feelings by doing push‑ups, starting bar fights, and trying to get under my skin.”“Under your skin, sure,” he said. “In a thousand ways. Only one of which is about sex.”“Don’t,” she said. “Don’t get sincere. It doesn’t fit your face.”He grinned reflexively, then sobered again.“Look,” he said. “We can keep dancing around this until one of us dies, or we can admit that whatever this thing is between us isn’t going away just because you glare at it.”“There is no ‘thing,’” she said. “There is irritation. And professional friction. And your inability to shut up. That’s all.”He took a step closer.“If that’s all,” he said softly, “tell me to walk out that door, and I will. No jokes. No pushback. Just say it.”She opened her mouth.*Walk out* was right ther
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