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“Honestly, that would be great.”

I shuffle over next to her so I can whisper without the others hearing. “This is mean.”

“He won’t be an asshole to her,” she waves me off.

“What in the world makes you think that, based on every interaction you’ve ever had with him?”

“Look.” She nods her head towards their table where Beatrix is standing, pointing over to us. Oh fuck.

Caio’s eyes catch mine before he pulls out his phone. Rafael’s head snaps towards us. His eyes like ice as he looks at May. She just grins back from beside me. “Cause look at her, and look at them,” she nods towards the two other girls watching intently from the bar. “He’s an ass, but he wouldn’t humiliate her like that.”

My phone dings in my back pocket.

Caio

Was your intention to get on Rafael’s shit list tonight?

Me

I had to get their attention off of you somehow, if I hadn’t mentioned Raf who knows, she could’ve been sitting in your lap right now.

Caio

She would’ve been catapulted halfway across the bar before she sat on my lap.

Me

Well that’s not very gentlemanly.

Caio

As if anyone’s going to sit on my lap but you. Don’t think I didn’t notice the way you hesitated to leave the table earlier.

Me

If I didn’t leave the table then and there, I would’ve been sat on your lap all night.

Caio

Sounds perfect to me.

I glance up from my phone to see Leo and Rafael squishing themselves over in the booth so that Beatrix can fit in beside them.

“See?” May says.

“Maybe he’s not so bad after all,” I nudge my shoulder into hers.

She cuts me a glance. “Nope, definitely still a prick.”

chapter twenty-seven

ISLA

Caio runsaround like a mad man with his fancy little vacuum cleaner as I sit at the kitchen counter arranging the charcuterie board in front of me.

Who ever thought watching a guy vacuum would be so appealing? I like seeing him domesticated.

“Why are you so stressed?” I ask.

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