Page 60 of Love In Hiding

“No.”

She squinted her eyes. “I’m not sure I believe you.”

“I thought I told you I don’t lie.”

“You did. You seem different though,” she said.

“So do you.”

“I’m trying. Don’t I get credit for that?”

“Maybe I’m doing the same.”

“But you don’t want to if it means being someone you’re not?” she asked.

“I’m never someone I don’t want to be. Don’t get that twisted.”

She nodded, their drinks put down in lightning speed. This was going to be a quick date if everything was served this fast.

She glanced down and picked a special quickly and he did the same. He’d rather get back to their date.

The night where things either popped with pizzazz, or fizzled down the drain.

“My sister knows what happened,” she said.

It was like a knife right to the gut. “I thought we agreed it’d be a secret.”

Which meant he wasn’t so sure he could trust her now. And that meant everything to him.

“It is one. She won’t say a word. The thing is, she knows me better than I know myself. You could say I got home in a mood and she wouldn’t let me go until I confessed it.”

“I’m listening.”

He put the beer to his lips and would let her set the stage since she went back on what he hadn’t wanted to happen.

“I told her how we ended up in the same room together. By the way, she thinks you’re cute.”

He coughed and put his hand in front of his mouth. “Is that going to be an issue?”

“What? That my sister thinks you’re cute. She didn’t say you were hot.”

“Doyouthink I’m hot?”

“Excuse me,” she said, her nose in the air.

“Oh, come on. You can put me on the spot with your question this afternoon, but I can’t do the same?”

She lifted her glass to him. “Fair point. And you won’t even have to ask me more than once to answer. Yes, I do.”

“It’s mutual.”

“I know it is,” she said. “It’s why I pushed you.”

“That’s it? The only reason. That you had to see if you could win.”

“You’re trying to push my buttons.” Her head was angled, but she wasn’t losing her patience just yet.

“You do it to me all the time.”