Page 79 of My Real Love Affair

I threw my phone on the couch, then immediately retrieved it because I needed it to fix this mess.

Think, Austin. Think.

What would actually matter to her? What would prove this wasn’t just another Bancroft playing games?

Rodney emerged from the bathroom twenty minutes later, looking slightly less green.

“You still here?” he asked.

“Where would I go?”

He was still wearing nothing but his underwear. “Can you put some clothes on?” I asked irritably.

He ignored me and picked up the orange juice carton. I watched as he finished it off.

I wasn’t going to tell him I had drank straight from the carton earlier. I had a feeling it wouldn’t matter.

“I can’t get dressed,” he said.

“Why?”

“I don’t know where my clothes are.”

I stared at him. “What the fuck?”

“Yeah, I don’t know.”

“I’ll get you a pair of my sweats. It’s a little weird. I don’t want to see you in your underwear.”

“Call one of those IV people. I’m dying here.”

“You call,” I said and walked back to my room.

I grabbed a pair of sweats and tossed them at him.

“Did you call?” he asked.

“You call.”

“I think my phone is in my pants. And since I don’t know where those are.”

I frowned at him. “How did you lose your clothes? Did we come back here with you like that?”

He smirked. “I have no idea.”

I shook my head and grabbed my phone. The battery was down to one percent. I plugged it in and then called the IV place and ordered the emergency service for two.

If I was going to save this thing with Melody, I needed to be properly hydrated.

And fed.

I ordered room service and then dropped onto the couch. My head was still spinning but I was going through a mental list of things I needed to do to save the relationship with Melody.

If it was even possible.

CHAPTER 24

MELODY