Page 46 of Apparently, I’m Trouble

I gently placed her foot down and reached for the other. “No. That was a temporary thing. I’m not a real musician; I just know how to play.”

From the other side of the table, I could see her pretty lips quirk upward. She was about to tease me; I could tell.

“Those tattoos aren’t because you were secretly hoping to be a rock god one day?”

“No. They’re, uh, tributes, I guess.” My cheeks heated. “To some of my favorite things.”

“Oh well, you have to tell me what those things are now. What could you have loved so much that you had to get a tattoo?”

I cleared my throat and circled my palm across her heel. “Kira’s on my arm with angel wings.”

“Because she’s your little angel.”

“Yeah.”

“Damn it, Theo. Don’t you dare make my heart melt. I don’t think I could take that and a foot rub.”

I coughed out an awkward noise, and she snickered. Smartass. I wanted to pinch her baby toe just to tease her back, but I set her foot down instead.

“Stand for me?”

She did as I asked, and when I noticed her careful hold on the edge of the table, I gripped her elbow and helped her up.

Immediately, her eyes went to the bulge in my trousers, widened, then darted away.

“Mia, I can’t help it.”

“You could at least wear tighter boxers. I shouldn’t be able to see it, should I?”

“I’ve always been… bigger–”

“Now you’re just bragging.”

“–And I don’t usually have this kind of problem around my patients.”

She looked up at me, and her confusion seemed genuine as she asked, “Why me then? You don’t even like me.”

“I liked you enough to want to fuck you in a closet.”

She blushed, and something told me that didn’t happen to her often.

Chapter 19

Mia

The fit asshole managed to make me blush. That did not happen often.

“It’s just physical then?” I asked.

I couldn’t crane my neck up to see all of him, although I could move more now than when I first walked in.

This morning was a series of swearing and sweating, but I managed to pull on my floatiest, roomiest dress, slip my feet into a pair of sandals, and pull a bag over my shoulder. I called Lilly and asked her to cover my classes for the day, and only grunted twice as I slid into an Uber.

I was a living example of dumbass-who-hurt-herself-and-couldn’t-afford-to-do-it-again when I shuffled into Chiropractic Care and found out that Theo was the person I’d begged to see over the phone earlier that same morning.

Score one for the universe. I did not see that coming.

And an enjoyable conversation? Didn’t see that coming either.