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Thirteen
JULIUS
She looked amazing, but then again she always looked that way. Only now she wastryingto look amazing, so between her makeup, her dress, and her teased-out hair, it took things to a whole different level.
“Hi Julius!”
Delilah bounced past me in the hallway, all smiles and happiness before she disappeared into her room. It left me standing there stock still, deliciously awash with the scent of coconut and raspberry and God only knew what else.
Fuck.
I stayed until I could no longer smell her, which was quite a while. Then I made my way into the living room, where Liam was cracking open three fresh bottles of ice cold beer, even though Duncan was staying in the city tonight.
“We’re gonna end up drinking the third one,” I told him, as he handed me mine.
“What? Why?”
“She’s going out.”
Liam’s brows came together in confusion. I nodded in confirmation as I sank into the opposite section of the couch.
“Where’s she going?”
“Hell if I know,” I shrugged. “But it’s her night off, so…”
I knew what he was thinking even before I saw the concern on his face. I was thinking the same thing. And the way she looked…
“She’s going out with aguy?” Liam tilted his head.
I let out a gruff chuckle. “Hell if I know,” I said again. “But she’s got on a tight dress, high-heels, and her hair’s halfway to Mars. She’s also wearing that makeup around the eyes that makes girls look all feline and sexy. You know the kind I’m talking about.”
Vaguely, Liam nodded. He still hadn’t touched his beer yet. “Yeah,” he breathed. “Yeah, I do.”
“Well have you seen a girl dress up like that for anythingotherthan a guy?”
He swallowed, dryly. “Maybe a night out dancing with girlfriends or something.”
“Delilah has no girlfriends,” I countered solemnly. “At least, none that she’s told us about.”
In the two weeks she’d been here, our Nanny and roommate had pretty much been an open book. She held very little back in the way of anything, and had relaxed alongside us whenever her keyboard wasn’t clacking away from the medical transcription job she still did part time.
We knew she’d been marooned in New York by parents who abruptly pulled up roots and a married sister who recently moved down south. She also had a five-year old niece and nephew she wouldn’t stop gushing about, twenty-four seven. But that was okay. It was cute as hell, how much she loved those kids. As far as we were concerned, it only meant she’d take incredible care of our own.
“Wow,” breathed Liam. “A date.”
“Yeah.”
He finally brought his beer to his lips, and took a long pull. By the time he lowered it Delilah was back in the living room, this time with a fresh but not overly-done application of lip gloss, and liner to make her lips even plumper and thicker than they already were.
Shit, she looked so good it made me shift on the couch.
“I should be out late tonight boys,” she beamed, “so don’t wait up for me.”
She was kidding of course, but the looks on our faces might have told an entirely different story.
“Where are you going?” Liam asked casually. “I mean… not that you have totellus or anything,” he added quickly, “I was just making conver—”
“I’m going out on a date,” Delilah replied plainly. “Remember? The not-so-random stranger?”
