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Even though Tess had proclaimed to be tired, she was wide awake. She knew from their time already spent here that Mo and Pierce wouldn’t be calling it a night anytime soon, so her normal stress reliever of chatting with Mo when she was fired up would have to wait until later.
Filled with nervous energy, she decided that a soak in the hot springs Mo had raved about was exactly what she needed to decompress. After donning her bathing suit and a flowing light linen cover-up, she grabbed an enormous, fluffy towel from her bathroom and emerged into the hallway.
She was startled to see Sebastian pacing outside of her room. He looked just as surprised to see her.
“What are you doing here?” she asked him at the same time as he said, “Where are you going?”
She was a little miffed that she w
