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“Interesting. Does that make the job harder?”
“Not really. I mean, we need to drive a bit farther than most, and usually it means we’re backup for a local team who are in charge, but it’s not harder because of that. It’s just different.”
“It sounds like an intense career choice to me,” I admit.
“It can get pretty crazy at times,” he says. “I didn’t think you were too impressed when you found out what we do for a living. In fact, I remember you telling someone else we were only slightly less boring than a bunch of accountants. I think that might have been the exact quote.”
Oh, my God. It does sound like something Scarlett would say, and it’s completely mortifying.
I can feel my cheeks burning.
I take a sip of my coffee, trying to hide my wince.
“Would you believe I don’t remember saying that?”
He laughs. “No, but I’m willing to pretend it didn’t happen if you want a do-over.”
“I’ll take that do-over.”
Chapter thirty-three
Scout
The guys were right. There’s something different about Scarlett this week. It’s almost like she’s embarrassed for insinuating our jobs were boring, and she definitely didn’t care about how it came across when she first made that comment when we met and looked right back at me afterward.
Either she was pushing us away intentionally before, or she’s just figured out what we are to her.
I’m not sure which it is. Not yet.
“I should get started cleaning up,” she says, looking around before setting her mug of coffee down by the side of the sink. She takes the cleaning stuff out from under the sink and starts with the table, which is already spotless thanks to Bishop’s after dinner routine.
I feel a little weird just standing around watching her like this.
Getting my phone out, I check my emails while I drink my coffee.
I look up as she moves from one task to the next, realizing she’s not singing.
As far as her housemates tell it, she’s always practicing.
“Any new songs you’re working on lately?” I ask as she brings the mop and bucket out for the floor.
“Um, nothing I feel like talking about,” she says after a second of hesitation.
“Too personal?”
“Something like that.”
She must be really cut up over the guy she was dating.
Bishop said he cheated on her.
It had to be kind of serious if it ended over something like that, and it must have been a secret at the time, considering she didn’t tell anyone about it while she was actually seeing him.
I don’t need to know any more to know the guy sounds like an absolute dickhead.
“I’ll be in the lounge if you need anything,” I tell her, giving her the space to get the floor cleaned.
I’m actually kind of surprised at how seriously she’s taking the cleaning up.
