“I’m not saying a word to your father.”
“Not now,” he said. “But we don’t know what the future will bring.”
“Well, I guess if we are confessing, my mother knows. But she’s in another country so that doesn’t count.”
“Hey, don’t get mad at me then if you told someone.”
“I needed the moral support and she knew it. She knows my history and past. You don’t.”
“But I’d like to,” he said, and turned to finish dinner when she clammed up.
17
MORE DISCIPLINED
“How was your weekend?” Blair asked her on Monday.
“It was great,” she said. “And yours?”
“Spent packing. Not that I’ve got that much in my small apartment but much more than I thought. My mother’s house is bigger, but I’ll just be in my old room on the second floor.”
“What are you doing with all your furniture?”
“I’m bringing everything,” Blair said. “I don’t plan on living in the house forever. I’m getting her set up and if I can move into an apartment, I will. Otherwise, I’ll stay until there is no need for me to be there or we can get help.”
“Would you ever come back and want your job back?”
Why hadn’t she thought of this?
Maybe she wouldn’t have been so unsure of things if she had had any communication with Ethan on Sunday.
But nope.
They’d eaten dinner together, then ended up back in his bed. At that point, there was no reason to fight it.
As her mother used to say, the cow was out of the barn so let him roam free.
After the second time, they’d ended up in the shower together.
Another first for her with a man.
Seemed like Ethan brought a lot of those experiences out.
After their shower, they chatted a bit more, nothing of substance, and then when she wanted to walk home, he drove her instead. It was silly in her mind for him to do that when he could walk faster, but also considerate too.
But Sunday rolled around and it was absolute crickets. Nothing. Not even a text.
How the hell were they supposed to act around each other today?
Was she going to be able to keep her blushes in?
She hadn’t when she talked to her father last night and he asked how her first week went. The first he’d talked to her since she’d started.
She shouldn’t have been surprised and realized there’d be no moral support on his end and wasn’t sure why she thought there might be.
“I won’t come back,” Blair said. “I moved here with my ex-husband years ago for his job. Raised my kids and they’ve moved. There isn’t much holding me here other than my job and some friends.”
“That’s not enough?”
