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Something gleams in her eyes. “What do you want me to bring?”
“Just yourself, princess?—”
She drops her towel, and my mind pauses like a record scratch. Her perky tits look so good out in the open, but they are quickly hidden away with her bra, and the rest of her body follows suit.
I shamelessly watch as she gets fully dressed, forgetting that I’m also completely naked, and now I’m sporting a full hard-on.
“No, mister.” She points at my dick. “Will Ella be there? We can make something.”
I fetch a pair of my underwear and throw them on.
“I’m pretty sure Jaxon is asking if she wants to go later today.”
“It kind of feels like a group date.”
She’s right. Tyler and Piper are endgame like always. Casey has a new boy toy she met on the fourth. Jaxon and Ella have their situation-ship, along with Sally and me.
“You don’t need to bring anything. Casey always brings more than we need. The Gutierrezs like feeding people.”
“Nope,” Sally pops the word out before walking out of the room.
I follow her into the kitchen as she looks through each of the cabinets and then the fridge.
“I’ll need to go to the grocery store before making anything.” She pulls out her phone. “I’m going to see if Ella can pick some stuff up on her way back.”
I watch her as she moves around the kitchen effortlessly. It feels like yesterday that I was in here fixing it up and Sally was refusing to talk to me. I have to thank Ella for pushing me to help make this place sellable.
Even if it’s the last remnant I have of Simon. Maybe this house being sold and someone else living here will help me move on.
The idea leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, though. This house getting sold also means losing something that connects me to Sally. This house is the reason she’s here, and we’ve been able to have whatever this relationship is.
“Don’t give me that look. I refuse to go to any group event and not bring something. Usually, it’s Mama or Mia pushing it, but this time, I want to be a good girlfr…”
Her voice trails off, and my ears perk up.
She was about to say girlfriend. God, I might be just imagining it because I want to be her boyfriend, but I want her to finish that sentence.
“Good what, princess?”
She flushes and quickly turns away. “Nothing. I wasn’t thinking.”
“Sal, finish the sentence.”
She thinks for a second, and I can see her expression growing fond but then morphing into a frown. I lost this round.
“It’s nothing, Oliver. Leave it be.” I move to pull her into a hug, but she quickly wipes something away. “Can you go into the second bedroom and see if there are any cookbooks in there? I know Mimi said she wanted to keep some and bought them from the sale.”
I don’t want to push her further because, no matter how much progress I make, pushing will always be a step in the wrong direction with Sally. She’ll stop opening up. She will close that part for good.
I walk into Simon’s old room. Most of everything is gone now after that sale. Once again, he helped me move forward, even if it’s just his ghost.
There’s a book on top of the bed with a cute little cartoon on it. Sally said Mimi reads romance all the time. With the way she blushes every time she sees a shirtless guy, you’d think she has never experienced anything.
I walk over to the desk. Maybe she’s been using it. She is writing a book, last I heard. My hand trails over the wood and pulls open one of the compartments.
Instead of finding a cookbook, I’m faced with different letters. Curiosity killed the cat, but Sally never mentioned them. Different letters. Mimi types all her writing. These are handwritten.
Being the nosy boy I am, my eyes scan a letter, and immediately, my brow furrows when Simon’s name is written out.
