“She must think I have a thing for rude men then,” I said without thinking, only half-joking. I expected him to cuss me out, but he surprised me for the second time in the span of a few minutes by giving me a faint smile instead. “I really was a dick, wasn’t I?” A corner of my lips twitched up. “A huge one. Enormous.” He stifled a laugh with a not-so-casual cough and a heat flooded my cheeks. Crap. “That sounded really nasty, didn’t it?”
