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Fine, it can wait till this weekend, but we have to talk.
Shit! That sounded ominous. I told her to contact me when she had time this weekend, and then I sent Zeke a message. Can you talk?
I didn’t hear back from him, and it was after five when I finally did. Unfortunately, I was on my way to dinner with a client and told him I’d speak to him later.
After nine, I arrived home, and instead of going to my apartment, I went straight to his and knocked.
He opened the door wearing jeans that were unbuttoned and no shirt. My gaze locked onto the hair covering his chest, and I was immediately craving the feel of it against my face. I forced myself to lift my eyes to his.
“What did you say to Diane?”
He frowned, “Well, hello, Shelby. Won’t you come in?”
“Zeke, what did you say to Diane?”
He stepped back and held the door open. I sighed and stepped in, dropping my shoulder bag to the floor inside the door as I turned to him and opened my mouth to ask him again.
I didn’t get the chance because he swooped forward and took my mouth with his in an intensely deep kiss that made me cling to him or risk collapsing on the floor.
When he finally pulled back, he looked down at me, “That is the proper way to say hello, by the way.”
“Hello, Zeke.” I pushed against his chest to back him up. “What did you say to her?”
“Nothing.”
“What do you mean, you didn’t say anything to her? She contacted me today and said that we needed to talk.”
“So?”
“She said it like she knew something. Like she had a bone to pick with me.”
He took me by the shoulder’s, “Shelby, I haven’t spoken to her. Not really. We traded a few text messages, but she said she’s been busy.”
“She wanted to meet me tonight and talk.”
“That’s funny because she told me she was working tonight.”
I frowned. What was going on with Diane? “That doesn’t make sense.”
“You know what doesn’t make sense?” He took my face in his hands as I shook my head. “Us trying to figure out what is up with her. You know I don’t want to be with her, and I’ll show you the text messages and the times I have tried to meet up with her to tell her that.”
“Yeah, but what does she want to talk to me about?”
“I don’t know, but it’s nothing that I’ve said or done. It could be anything. You two are best friends.”
“What if she knows about what we did the other night?”
He spiked a brow, “What did we do?”
“Come on, Zeke. We might not have had literal sex, but that was still cheating.”
He shook his head and sighed as his hands dropped to his sides, “Shelby, you know that I am not into Diane. I am into you, and I want to see where this goes.”
“I do too. I won’t deny that, Zeke, but I can’t sleep with you. Not until you talk to Diane.”
“Fine. Then we won’t sleep together until then. If I don’t get the chance to talk to her in the next couple of days, I’ll tell her it’s over in a text. I hate to do that, but if that’s the way I have to do it, then I will.”
My shoulders dropped, “Fine. I don’t want you to do that either. You probably won’t have to do it that way, though. She wants to get together this weekend. I’ll let you know when and you can catch her then.”
