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“Do you know what it took to get you to come to the Caribbean?” he said. “Worse than negotiating a store lease agreement. It was quite a challenge, I must say.”

Her smile widened. “Yet another one that you’ve met and conquered.”

“Was that a compliment? Or a dig? Somewhat hard to tell.”

She shrugged, watched as a gaggle of dancing teenagers pranced by them. “Merely a statement.”

He took another sip of the coconut drink. “Pity. I was hoping for the former.”

“Fishing for compliments, are you?”

“My ego is a fragile thing.” He held his hand to his chest with mock melodrama.

That laugh again; he could easily get used to it. “Something tells me you come by compliments quite often,” she said.

He took a moment to respond, deciding to throw caution to the wind. “Some compliments mean more than others, given the source.”