Well, if he'd been expecting Dean to pretend he wasn't upset, it seemed he'd miscalculated. Don Juan felt a flush of irritation that Hudson hadn't gone along with it; that they were having to talk about it at all when neither of them wanted to spend their time doing this. As though Hudson was personally depriving them both of them enjoyment they could have had if they'd agreed to put this aside and just kiss.

"Don't want to deal with me tonight," Don Juan returned. His tone was sulky but somewhere in the back of his mind he meant it like a barb.

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