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leaned back and his eyes widened. “What do you know about world heavyweight championships?”
    She shrugged and smirked. “I know the heavyweight champion is pretty much the face of wrestling. And they have the bigger belt.”
    So she knew a little bit about wrestling. “Bigger isn’t better.”
    “Is your insecurity showing?”
    He was really starting to like her sassy mouth. He wagged a finger at her. “Aha-ha, you’ve got jokes.”
    “Just an observation.” She dragged out the last word before taking another sip of her beer.
    Aaron’s thoughts fled, chased away by the sight of those luscious lips wrapped around the long neck of the bottle. He blinked and shook his head. “Who’s your favorite heavyweight champion?”
    Kacey refilled his glass. “Easy. The Mountain.”
    Aaron slapped the bar and shook his head. Most women liked that guy because of his looks and the successful acting career he’d started after leaving wresting. “No! Are you serious? You have to go back to when wrestling was great. That’s when Hardy Boy Ricky Mable held the title.”
    “Hey, I’m not hating on Ricky, but the Mountain was awesome. He is still awesome!”
    “I can’t believe this.” He tapped the shoulder of the guy next to him. “Can you believe this?”
    The guy looked from him to Kacey and shrugged. Aaron turned back to her. “Tell me why you think he’s so awesome.”
    That started a debate of the best and worst champions and tag-team duos in wresting history. Kacey proved she knew more than a little bit about wrestling, and impressed the hell out of him. The bartender brought his check, and Aaron paid after Kacey challenged his ranking of the Wild Hawaiians in the place of all-time best tag-team champions.
    “I give it to you,” Aaron said as he signed his credit card receipt. “You know your wrestling.”
    “I’ve watched since I was a kid.” She leaned in close. “It’s my guilty pleasure.”
    “Nothing wrong with that.” He slid the signed receipt across the bar, then turned to Kacey. “So, are you ready to go have a good time?”
    Her easy smile faltered. Bluntness normally worked easier than being sly.
    “Are you sure you don’t want to take the easy route?” she asked.
    “Positive.”
    She swallowed and he followed the movement of the muscles in her neck. Everything about her drew his attention. Crazy, he’d never been this into a woman he’d just met before.
    “Go on out and give me a second to wrap things up with my sister.”
    “Don’t want to be seen leaving the bar with a man you just met?”
    “Something like that.”
    He nodded and stood. “I’ll see you outside.” He ran a finger down her arm. Not to be seductive, but because he’d been dying to touch her all night. Her skin was soft, and the simple touch thrilled him more than he’d expected. Aaron knew that even if she didn’t meet him, he’d never forget his reaction to her.

Chapter 4
    Kacey walked out onto the wooden deck of Momma’s Kitchen, her heart pounding in her chest. She hadn’t told Monique she was taking the hot guy from the bar home. Just said she was tired and would catch up with her later. Monique had caught the eye of another guy and waved Kacey off.
    What am I doing?
The straitlaced side of her brain said to ignore the crazy rush going on inside of her body, go home, and get ready for her last semester in school. The long-neglected side argued that backing out meant going home to a bowl of popcorn and Netflix. Or, more likely, getting online to go over the course description for her final class and then doing some online research.
    Neither of which were what she really wanted to do. What she really wanted to do was live out the fantasy of being daring enough to go home with the hot guy at the bar. To forget all the lectures about not letting loose and actually do just that. So what if the last time had ended in heartbreak and disaster? She’d been seventeen and stupid. Now she was twenty-seven and