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He texted Tammie a quick message: Have to cancel tonight. Something came up. By the time he’d locked his front door and was sliding into the car next to Addi, he’d almost forgotten he’d sent it. Leaned back in the passenger seat of his car, her blond ponytail blowing in the breeze, her elbow resting on the window’s edge... She looked damn good in his car. Any guy who caught sight of her looking this tempting would forget his own name.
His phone buzzed from its resting spot on the gear box and Addi’s eyes went to it at the same time his did. A photo of Tammie’s low-cut top and plentiful cleavage flashed onto the screen.
“Shit.” He picked up his phone. “Sorry about that.”
“No judgment here.” She held up a hand.
Beneath the lewd photo, the text read, Can I change your mind?
He replied, Going out of town. Rain check.
We’ll seecame Tammie’s reply.
He shook his head. Not because he’d messed up his “sure thing” but because he didn’t remotely care about seeing her once he was back home. What had he been thinking? That the attraction he felt for Addi could be painted over with a girl like Tammie? Impossible.
Not the point. He wasn’t pursuing Addi.
“I didn’t peg you for a clean lines kind of guy,” his adorable assistant said, her eyes on his house and, he noticed, not on his phone.
“I don’t like clutter.”
She hummed but didn’t look at him. He had an idea how to get her attention, even if it was a tad immature.
“Sorry you can’t go topless.”
He earned a wide-eyed look of surprise.
“I almost bought a convertible, but I couldn’t resist the sleekness of this model. Was that joke too soon?”
She held her finger and thumb an inch apart and peered at him through the gap. So damn cute.
“Windows down okay?” He pressed a button and both driver’s and passenger’s windows lowered. “Some women don’t want to mess up their hair.”
“Like the woman on your phone?”
“Oh-ho! I sense a little bit of judgment.” He mirrored her earlier gesture and held his own finger and thumb an inch apart. “I canceled my date with her tonight. I guess that was her way of trying to change my mind.”
“That lacks creativity.” Addi tilted her head and a flirty smile crossed her lips. He could feel them sliding back into the comfortable groove they’d worn in at the office.
The only new part was that the joking was starting to feel a lot like flirting.
An excited glint lit her eyes before she slipped on her sunglasses. “I’m okay with the wind in my hair.”
She shouldn’t care what Bran was doing or who he was doing it with. After all, she was leaving Crush Island and setting sail for Independence Cove.
She shouldn’t care. But she did.
Sigh.
The woman who’d texted him wore a skintight dress that left little to the imagination. Her chest was unmistakably the subject of the photo, but Addi had caught sight of a cute, pert nose and full red lips. She still couldn’t believe he’d canceled his date with that woman to ferry Addi to Lake Tahoe.
A rock song played on satellite radio and he sang along, slightly out of tune. She smirked, liking his voice no matter how imperfect the pitch.
“Are you laughing at my singing?” he asked, the wind from the open windows whipping his hair around his head.
“Not at all,” she lied.
“Yes, you were.” He turned the volume down. “It’s okay. My sister’s been laughing at me since she was born.” They watched the road for a beat before he added, “I haven’t been to Tahoe in about five years. Last time I was there, I nearly died on a bunny slope.”
