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He sped off to the bathroom before she could ask what it meant again. Fortunately, taking a shower was easier than the bath. By the time he emerged and threw on a pair of fresh navy chinos and a white-and-navy-checkered button-down (much easier than pulling something over his head), Dani was already dressed in the room, wearing a pink and orange wrap dress that hugged in all the right places and opened at a slit on her thigh.
Theo couldn’t take his eyes off her. And chances were, other men—like Andreas—wouldn’t be able to take their eyes off her, either.
“Do you like it?” she asked after noticing him looking. “I got it from that cute little boutique in downtown Grand Rapids a few months ago.” She did a half twirl that revealed way more thigh than should have been legal. Not with the type of scandalous thoughts running through Theo’s head.
“Are you sure you won’t be cold?” was all Theo could say in response.
Dani frowned. “Theo, it was a million degrees today.”
“Yeah, but the evenings get cooler.”
“Then I’ll ask Andreas or Christos to borrow a jacket,” she said, shrugging.
“Do you think that’s a good idea?” he asked.
“What on earth are you talking about?” she asked, furrowing her brow.
Okay, now Theo was getting annoyed. It was one thing for her to flirt with the guy. It was another thing to pretend like she wasn’t.
“I’m only saying…I think maybe you and Andreas were a little too…friendly, earlier.”
“Friendly?”
Theo rolled his eyes. “Don’t be coy, Daniela.”
“Oh my God,” Dani guffawed. “If you haven’t noticed, Theo, Maurice and Louis aren’t here anymore. We don’t have to keep pretending.”
“We told his yayá we were engaged, and there the two of you were, flirting right in front of me. How can we trust someone like that?”
“Iwasn’t flirting.Hewas. And trusting him is easy seeing as we don’t have any other choice right now.”
Her nonchalance turned his stomach.
“Fine. Look but don’t touch,” he said.
Where the hell did that come from? The minute the words were out of his mouth, he wished he could suck them back in.
“Look but don’t touch?” she repeated with disbelief, craning her neck to glare. “For fuck’s sake, you’re really taking this big-brother thing a little too far, don’t you think?”
“I’m trying to protect you,” he growled, standing less than two feet from her.
“Protect me?” She spun around and brought her finger up to his face. “If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t even be in this mess!”
“And if it wasn’t foryou, I wouldn’t be, either!” he said, taking a step forward.
Shit.
He hadn’t meant to say that.
She cocked her head back, clearly having whiplash from what he’d said.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” she asked, her eyes narrowing at him.
He couldn’t tell her the truth. That after he’d heard about herbeaufrom her dad, he went to the karaoke joint to confirm for himself. That seeing her singing on the stage while staring lovingly at her new man didn’t just make him jealous—it crushed him. That the only thing he thought to do about it was to get as far away from her as possible.
So he could forget. So he could finally move on. Maybe he’d even come to Greece and find himself a Good Greek Girl who didn’t highlight all the things he liked about Dani.
