Hull suddenly grabbed her hand, catching Susanna completely off guard. "Whoa —what are you doing?" she blurted, startled.

For some reason, watching him hold her hand, she felt like he was almost squeezing it a little too tightly.

Hull gently rubbed her rough palm between his own. "You've gotten tanned. And your hands are all calloused."

Susanna stared at him, speechless.

Tanned? Rough?

Those were basically the worst insults you could throw at a girl. "You... you "

"If you keep training like this, your hands are going to be a mess.”

Susanna's face fell apart. Inside, she was screaming: A mess? Last night he couldn't keep his hands off me, and now he wants to talk about my hands?

Hull looked at her, deadpan. "Are you cursing me out in your head?"

Susanna replied quickly, "No, of course not."

She totally was. Hmph.

Before she could say anything else, the food started arriving.

There was fish chowder, creamy chicken casserole, seaweed salad, papaya yogurt, banana milkshake, and-wait-another papaya dish, and another...

Susanna twitched an eyebrow.

at Hull, barely able to hide her confusion. "Hull, do you have, like, a

whole table was covered

all for you. Big bro says you're

Seriously? After all the times he'd tried to explain things to Barnaby, the guy still hadn't learned a thing. He was

Susanna's face went scarlet.

deadly look. Just one glance, and he could see the accusation in her eyes. This

now he was

crew in on it?

a moment late, but when it did, she was

slammed her fork down on the plate, huffed loudly, and

at how quickly she'd lost

Barnaby

"Big bro,

was shaky,

seriously

Finley. At least Finley's mouth runs ahead of

Barnaby? He never even

up, shot Barnaby another icy look. "You didn't say anything wrong. It's my

Barnaby: "???"

could ask what that meant, Hull was already out the door, clearly going

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