Page 222 of On His Team

“Did you ever submit your grad application?”

His hand pauses for maybe half a second. “Yeah.”

I push myself upright. “What?”

“Yeah.”

“When?”

“Couple weeks ago.”

I stare at him.

Rowan looks completely calm.

I say, “You submitted your graduate-school application two weeks ago and didn’t tell me?”

“You had the clinic.”

“That took one day.”

“You were working on it before that.”

“You have seen me approximately every day since then.”

“I forgot to mention it.”

“Rowan.”

He starts smiling.

“No,” I warn. “Don’t smile. Why didn’t you tell me?”

He shrugs. “I didn’t think it was a big announcement.”

“It is absolutely a big announcement.”

“I applied. You knew I was going to.”

“That is not the same as you actually doing it.”

He reaches for my waist, but I lean away far enough to make him work for it.

“When do you hear?”

“Not sure.”

“You didn’t check?”

“I checked.”

“And?”

“Could be a few weeks.”

I narrow my eyes. “You are terrible at this.”

“At what?”