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doesn’t mean I didn’t.”
    “I”
    “It’s okay.” She tossed back her hair and flashed an unapologetic smile. “Lots of times I fall asleep to the Discovery Channel. I try not to use my brain a lot now, though. I don’t want to use it up. Sooner, rather than later, the skin’s going to get blotchy, and the equipment” She mimed her curvaceous figure in the air. “The equipment is going to go south. Lesbian sugar mommies are really quite hard to find, so I guess sooner or later, I’m going to have to get a real job. I’ll go back to being Myra, and I’ll need the brain then.”
    Ani couldn’t help herself. “That whole bit about the tips was just a dumb act, wasn’t it?”
    “Works on guys all the time.” Lisa grinned. “You, on the other hand, didn’t offer to let me keep some of your tip money. Clever woman.”
    In spite of herself, Ani laughed. Lisa’s honesty about her motivations was refreshing. “The offer last night, was that about tip money?”
    “No. That was about Kirsten saying you were great in bed. She had a good laugh about it when I called her this morning. I’m taking her off my list of friends.” Lisa rested back on her elbows. “So what’s a nice geologist like you doing in a place like this?”
    “Earning a living.”
    “And not much else, I’ll bet. Really what made you move here?”
    “I love the beach.” At Lisa’s patent skepticism, Ani added, “Why else?”
    “Because it’s a long way from there.” She pointed at the Alaska Today . “Kirsten was right about one thing. Any girl with a pulse has a heart attack when she walks into thirty degrees and there you are in a tank top and those sexy fingerless gloves.”
    “It’s just the uniform. It’s not like I’m”
    “Trying, no you’re not even trying, which makes it all the more intoxicating. Then they find out you really are in your element as cold as the furniture.” Lisa stared at her and there was no way she missed the fact that Ani was blushing. “Now I’ve got it figured out. I don’t know who she was, but half the lesbians in Key West hate her.”
    “Who?”
    “Whoever she was—the one that broke your heart.”
    “Oh.” It was Ani’s turn to be rueful. “I broke her heart.”
    “And then you took off?” Lisa cocked her head and Ani realized she was a little bit older than she’d first supposed. “Well, since I don’t think we’re likely to date given your preferences…” She nudged the geoLogics with her toe. “That leaves me free to say I think that’s chicken shit.”
    Irritated, Ani snapped, “Who asked you?”
    “Oh, please. Lesbian code of conduct. If we’re not going to go to bed so we can become judgmental exes, then that means we go directly to being judgmental, but without the whole bitter thing. You broke her heart and took off so you didn’t have to watch her suffer.”
    Through gritted teeth, Ani said, “You don’t know anything about it.”
    “What difference does that make?”
    “God, you’re irritating.” This is why I don’t like people, Ani thought.
    “Oh, now you’re talking like an ex. Maybe we should go to bed after all.”
    Ani just stared at her.
    “What?” Lisa’s gaze was level. “You’re freaked because my real name is Myra, aren’t you?”
    “No, I’m annoyed because you’re a know-it-all.”
    “For a woman supposedly without a broken heart you have no sense of humor and not a clue how to flirt.”
    Ani had thought it was just the reflection off the sand, but the tiniest crinkle at the corners of Lisa’s eyes made it apparent she was being teased. “What if I don’t want to laugh? There’s global warming and the price of gas, you know.”
    “Say melanoma in a group of surfers guaranteed to bring the vibe down.”
    “I’m not going to win this battle of wits, am I?”
    “No. Might as well give up.” Lisa opened the half-buried cooler. “Can I have the apple?”
    “Sure, if you buy me an ice cream.”
    “Buy your own ice