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Mum’s eyebrow rose and I frowned in warning. I mean, I’d told her so she didn’t worry so much, but that was going to be the end of the conversation.
“Do not say anything.”
She shook her head. “Wouldn’t dare.”
“You would.”
“Say hi to Piper for me.”
“Fuck–” I caught myself before I finished that sentence. “I won’t, but…please feel free to pretend I did.”
Mum’s smirk would not be stopped. “All right, then. I will. In my mind, the two of you will have a very pleasant conversation over a thermos of tea, and will maybe consider hanging out indoors some time.”
“If you mention sex and babies, I might kill myself.”
She frowned in confusion. “What?”
“Fucking,” I muttered as I scrubbed my hand over my face. “Never mind. I’ll let you know how the tea is.”
She smiled. “Good. Thank you.”
I gave her a resigned nod, and started for the lake.
Rio had put me in a mood.
Sex and babies? Marriage?
What the fuck did he think was going to happen with me and Piper? Huh? I was going to magically become a decent human being who managed not to fuck up everything he touched, and Piper would fall in love with me?
Fuck that for a joke.
I turned around and headed for my car.
The girls at Jimbo’s didn’t make anyone talk about babies or marriage or love. Why not go and find myself a decent one of them? There was always at least one girl, if not a bunch of them, that was more than willing.
But those girls weren’t Piper Barlow.
FUCK!
My feet spun me of their own accord, and I found myself heading to the lake again.
I didn’t even know what I was doing anymore.
Whatever was happening between me and Piper could only ever be short-lived. We’d found ourselves in a bubble and no amount of being drawn to her was going to change that.
Because Iwasdrawn to her.
It wasn’t just sexual, as much as I wanted to run my hands all over her body. I liked the way I felt when I was with her. I felt…okay with her. Settled. Content. Calm. Like I could actually handle my life, even if the rose-coloured glasses came off when I wasn’t with her.
She did things to me. Things that I knew I couldn’t act on, but I still found my feet taking me to her. I’d never felt so conflicted about anything. The answers to my problems were simple. This problem anyway.
All I had to do was stay away from her and I couldn’t break her.
…I just couldn’t stay away from her.
So I was going to have to make sure I was extra well behaved.
When I got to the lakeshore, she was trying to skip stones. I watched her for a few minutes, trying to work up the balls to turn around and leave her better off. I wanted to say that I was about to do just that when she beat me to it.
