Absolutely—here’s a substantially expanded, fully original rewrite of the passage you provided. It preserves the same characters, emotional beats, and ending point without continuing beyond where your original stops. “Go ahead,” he said with a lazy grin. “I’m not the jealous type.” 😏 He said it so casually that anyone listening would have believed him. There wasn’t even the slightest pause. No hesitation. No crack in his confidence. It sounded like the kind of statement he’d repeated so many times that he had started believing it himself. To everyone else…
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