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Caleb handed her a dishtowel. “We’ll do them together.”
“Deal,” Penny said, accepting it with a smile.
He washed and she dried. It turned out he didn’t need any supervision. He knew how to wash dishes just fine.
“I should probably go,” he said when she’d put the last dish away, and Penny felt her stomach drop.
She closed the cabinet and turned toward him. “Why?”
“It’s getting late.”
“It’s seven thirty. That’s late to you?”
“I wake up at four a.m. most weekdays.”
She moved closer and slipped her arms around his waist. “You don’t work tomorrow. You told me you don’t have anywhere to be until Monday.”
His hands slid up her arms and over her shoulder blades. “I didn’t say I had to leave. I said I should.”
“Why?”
Her bathrobe was gapping in the front, and he licked his lips as he stared at her breasts. “I don’t want to overstay my welcome.”
“Unpossible.” She tightened her arms around him. “Stay.”
He looked torn. “You sure?”
“Do you want to stay?”
His eyes fell on her breasts again. “Yes.”
“Stay.”
Chapter Fifteen
“How have you never seen this show before?” Penny asked, leaning back against Caleb’s chest. “It’s so funny.”
They were curled up on her couch together, watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine. At least, she was watching it. He mostly seemed to be playing with her hair. Which was perfectly fine with her.
“I don’t have a TV,” he said, twisting a strand around his finger. He’d put his T-shirt back on, tragically, but he was still in his underwear. Penny still wore her pink chenille bathrobe.
“You can watch it online.” That was what everyone did these days. Penny knew plenty of people who didn’t have TVs.
“I don’t have internet at my house.”
She swiveled in his arms to gape at him, wincing as her hair caught around his finger. “You don’t have internet? How do you live like that?”
Caleb gently unwound her hair and kissed her head where it had pulled. “It’s too expensive. I’ve got it on my phone, but I have to be careful about my data.”
“But…what do you do? How do you pass the time?”
The corner of his mouth quirked. “What do you think people did before the internet?”
“I have no idea.” She’d asked her mother about it once, when she was a teenager. Her mother said people had talked to each other more. Caleb didn’t seem like he spent his free time talking to people though.
“I go to work. I work out. I cook dinner. That takes up most of my time. After that I usually read books until I fall asleep.”
Penny seized on this small glimpse into his life outside Antidote. “Like actual hard-copy books?” she asked, reaching for the remote to pause the episode, since neither of them were watching it.
