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“Says who?”
“Says me.”
She grinned mischievously as she floated past me to get to the dining table. “Fine. What’s on the menu this evening, sweetie?”
“I was thinking of grilling up some ribs and making baked cheesy macaroni.”
She hummed while licking her lips. That alone was enough to harden my cock. I didn’t even bother to hide it this time. I wore my stunning bulge proudly as I propped my hands on my hips.
She snickered. “Do we need to go to the store?”
“I’ll make a delivery order. You can put your feet up and relax.”
“I don’t understand why anyone would fumble a guy like you.”
In an instant, my boner was gone. And it wasn’t really Regina’s fault. She was just being honest with me. It was the fact that a woman had said something like that to me at all.
I pushed my hands into my pockets. “What do you see that she doesn’t?”
“Every little thing you do.” She sat in one of the chairs and swirled her finger over the table's smooth surface. “Everything that no one else notices. I see it.”
“Like?”
She smirked. “The way your eye twitches when you’re stressed.”
“My eye does not twitch.”
“It’s doing it now.”
I smacked my hand over the right side of my face, refusing to acknowledge that familiar twang that happened when my brain was in overdrive. “What else?”
“How you try to be gentle with folks because you’re so strong. You’re real nice about being mindful.”
“I’m just not trying to catch a record for accidentally breaking someone’s bones.”
She smiled warmly. “You have a big heart too. You try to hide it, but I can see it. You show it to me when no one is around.”
“Yeah, well, I…”
I didn’t have an excuse for that.
Because she was right. Whenever she complimented me, I tried to pass it off as something else. Why did I do that?
I frowned at the floor. “I assumed every woman after Teresa would betray me.”
“That makes sense, Eric.”
“And maybe there’s still time for you to do that.”
She shrank back an inch, staring with shock glittering in her eyes. “Yeah, that’s technically true.”
She was right. I was right. This whole situation had been weird from the start. Our lives had smashed together on the technicality of one death—a best friend who I hadn’t seen for a while. He instructed his daughter to instruct me to return an amulet to a vampire. The only reason I had been spending any amount of time around Regina was because of Steven.
It was almost like Steven was trying to manipulate the hands of fate from his coffin. And part of me was thrilled at the thought that my best friend would approve of me being with his daughter. I just wasn’t sure my daughter felt the same way.
If her best friend became her stepmother, would she resent me? Would she reject us because of that?
I couldn’t handle another woman in my life leaving. That included Regina, too.
