“You have an answer for everything,” Dominic noted, admiringly. His perception of Gavin was rapidly evolving. Funny, he was realizing, wasn’t the right word for Gavin. Oh, he was definitely under the umbrella of funny, but this was wit. This was cleverness. This was, a little, drollery. This was also, Dominic noticed with real pleasure, a touch of flirtation.

“And you make tightly wound look attractive. I like conversing with you too, you know. I wondered what it would be like if we talked more.” And it was wonderful. Actually, it was almost spooky. He had a strange sense of what might be considered deja vu. Like this talk was familiar, broken in. Like they’d done it before. Like they should do it over and over again.