He scowled at her resignation to disdain. "Yeah, well. That's ridiculous. If they ever took a minute to get to know you, that wouldn't last long." The last kinks of tension had disappeared from Sarah's calf, near as he could tell, but Cooper kept rolling and stroking the muscle just for the pleasure of feeling her under his hands.<br/><br/>"Your cousin's set on landing an Italian?" He quirked a crooked smile at her. "That's kind of an unusual ambition. What made her decide on that?"