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Enzo: FYI… I’m calling bullshit on the once a week thing. I’m coming over tonight.
Enzo: Your silence will only resort in me having to use my best teasing practices tonight.
Well, at least they didn’t see his dick. Though Mae would have appreciated it because it’s a beautiful thing. I was never a lover of the male anatomy until Enzo, but his manhood is like a work of art. That I know what it feels like when he fills me probably adds to my admiration.
Mind out of the gutter, Annie.
Back to Operation “Make my friends keep their mouths shut.”
I lean forward with my hands splayed across the table. “You can’t tell anyone.”
Mae smiles. She’s enjoying this too much. “So your gut led you there?”
“Yeah.”
She throws a fry at me. “Why didn’t you tell me?”
I sulk in my chair, looking at Jake from the corner of my eye. “Because I have no idea where it’s going. And hello, I’m sleeping with the boss while trying to get promoted. I’m officially the stupidest person in the world and a disgrace to all women.”
“That’s a tad dramatic,” Mae says, crossing her arms. She eyes Jake. “You’re pretty quiet.”
He shrugs. “I figured it out the day the blinds were shut.”
“What? No, you didn’t.” I sit up straighter in my chair.
He wipes his hands on the napkins I brought him. “You came out and the button on your blouse was undone and your cheeks were flushed. You’d just been stranded for a night on the way back from Texas. It’s really not that hard to figure out.”
“Do you think badly of me?” I cringe, waiting for his answer.
He sips his drink and places it back on the table without a glance my way. “No, but I don’t see it ending well for you. I think you’re going to be the one on the sidewalk with a box, not him.”
I blow out a breath. That’s my worst fear, but Enzo hasn’t given me any special treatment at work.
My phone vibrates again, but I don’t pick it up.
“You better read it. I’ll be living through you until this whole affair ends.” Mae chuckles.
I lean back in my seat, her words soaking in. Affair and end. My friends don’t see a possibility that this thing with Enzo could go the distance. The thought shouldn’t bother me. He told me he’d try, and he is.
I push away Mae and Jake’s negative thoughts. They know the Enzo I did from before, not the Enzo I know now.
* * *
I openthe door to my condo. Enzo’s big body makes my apartment feel even smaller.
“It’s colorful, like you said.”
“You’re the one who insisted on coming.” I grab the pizza from his hands, and he follows me into the kitchen.
“It’s you. It suits your personality.” He looks around every nook and cranny.
“That’s what happens when you decorate it yourself.” I smile and he mocks offense.
We both know he doesn’t care.
My galley kitchen isn’t anything to rave about. There’s barely enough room for the two of us to be in here together. I grab the six-pack of beer from him and put it in the fridge.
He picks up a picture frame from my entry table. Beth, my dad, and me when I was in high school. “Beautiful as always.”
