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He crossed his arms.
"Okay. Fine. How about you come over Friday night? Charlie could use a guy around. He's been a little light on male influence in his life... unless Claren had someone around I didn't know about. Which could have happened and scares me to death."
Jake crooked his eyebrow questioningly.
She just shook her head.You don't want to know.
"I can do that," he said. "What time?"
"Around six thirty okay?"
Jake nodded.
Eva watched him climb into his truck, offering a wave as he backed out. She'd planned to tell Jamison she couldn't go out with him Friday night, but since Jake had volunteered to help, he could stay with Charlie.
But then again, maybe she should cancel with Jamison.
But if she did, then the doctor would think she wasn't interested. To be honest, she wasn't sure if she was. Jamison was nice, but almost too nice. Still, he kept her focused on something else besides Jake and the Texas-sized torch she carried for him. Dating Jamison made her look less interested, less desperate for the warmth of a certain hot-as-hell firefighter.
"Eva!" Charlie called.
She jerked her thoughts off the men in her life... well, sorta in her life... and went in to the male who'd be the center of her world for at least the next few months.
Charlie sat on the couch, frowning at the TV. Eva glanced at the screen and nearly screamed. Two naked people rolled around in bed.
"I can't get this to work. I wanna watch Nickelodeon."
Eva jerked the control out of his hand, fumbling for the button that would tum the channel.
Where was the damn guide button?
"What are those two people doing with their clothes off?"
"Nothing,” she moaned, jabbing at the off button but missing and hitting the menu button. The screen shrank, but the two actors were still moaning and saying really, really inappropriate things.
"Is he hurting her?" Charlie asked, scooting forward and squinting at the left corner where some actress was pretending to have an orgasm. "She sure is screaming."
Eva ignored his question, finally hitting the correct button. The TV went dark. ''There."
"You turned it off," he said, looking at her as if she'd stomped on a baby bird or something.
“Yes, because I wanted to show you around. I fixed up your room and bought you some new jeans and stuff. Don't you want to come see?"
He made a face. “All you bought was clothes?"
“And some books,”she offered.
"Books?" he repeated, wrinkling his nose.
Eva sighed and set the remote on the table. In the span of an hour Charlie had gone from the walking wounded to an irritable kid...who had questions about sex.
And she wassonot going there.
"You know what?" Eva asked. "Why don't you... ah. .. go wash your hands and check out your room while I heat up dinner and fix the TV?"
Charlie shrugged, grabbed his backpack, and started for the hallway. Eva clicked the TV on only to see the two actors kicked back in bed, twisted in the sheets, looking sweaty and satisfied. She found the parental controls on the menu and quickly set them so Charlie didn't have to see people getting their heads blown off or some random actressgettingoff with- Eva squinted her eyes to identify the actor- Richard Gere.
"Yep, until Charlie leaves, no one is getting any," she told the actress snuggling into Richard Gere and looking up at him with a dopey smile. "Especially me."
