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Ross closed his eyes again and leaned back against the pillar. His balls still hurt, along with a few other parts of his anatomy, but he was trying to relax. He had closed his eyes again mainly because he didn’t want to see if she would follow through on his invitation to kill him. He wondered if dying would reset this whole adventure and cause him to wake up back on his boat.
He finally forced one eye open, then the other one when he heard her hesitant question. Dark spots still danced before his eyes. Did he know Carly Tate? This woman obviously did; he hadn’t mentioned Carly’s last name.
He took a slow, shallow breath – breathing through his nose and releasing through his mouth as he tried to push the pain away. There was no way in hell he was ever getting close to that one-woman w
