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Jake looked around. "Uh, two? No. Three?"
"Jeez." Eva sighed, scratching something on the pad with a pen. “You already have my number. I’m just setting his medication right here beside the coffeemaker. He needs one antibiotic with his dinner.”
"Wait, you’re leaving?"
She looked up at him. "Yeah. I have a date."
A date? Jake shook his head like a cartoon character. What the… ''A date?"
"With Jamison. You volunteered to come tonight to babysit Charlie. Remember?"
Something hot and almost viscous blanketed him. Eva was going out with Mr. Stuffy Pants and leaving him here with Charlie?
Bull to the shit.
"I didn't volunteer tobabysit,"he said, glancing over at Charlie. "I thought you wanted to hang out."
She tilted her head in an adorable way. Well, it would have been adorable, if he hadn't been so absolutely pissed at the moment. Then she twisted those delectable lips. "Oh, well, I suppose I didn't actually mention babysitting. I didn't realize. Sorry. But I have a date and you were so kind to correct being a jackass so…”
Jake folded his arms. "I don't know what to do with a kid, and should you be leaving him like this? I mean, it's sorta selfish to go out on a date when your brother is still trying to adjust."
Eva's eyes crackled. "Selfish? Are you joking?"
Jake lifted a shoulder. "I'm just saying.”
Eva stalked around, entering the living room, coming to a halt, putting her hands on her hips. She looked pissed, and Jake wondered if he shouldn't have kept his mouth shut.
''What's selfish about it, jackass?" Eva asked.
"Oooh, you used a bad word, Eva," Charlie said.
“Oh, so now you can hear me?" Eva drawled at Charlie, tempering her look at him with a slight smile. The kid turned back to his trucks, and Eva zipped her gaze back to Jake, making him feel squirmy.
"Maybe I shouldn't have said selfish per se," Jake said, putting the coffee table between them. "I just wondered if it was good for you to leave since he's having some difficulty adjusting."
"Charlie, is it okay if I leave you for a few hours to go to dinner while you play trucks and watchFinding Nemowith Jake?"
“Sure,” Charlie said, taking the dump truck up the side of the console.
“See? He’s fine. Would it be better if I paid you?” Eva asked, grabbing her purse from the top of the piano.
“No.”
The doorbell rang.
“Great. That’s Jamison.”
Jake wanted to answer the door, punch the doctor in his mug, and lock Eva inside with him and Charlie. But that would be insane. That would be something a jealous fool would do. And he wasn’t a jealous fool.
Much.
Eva opened the door and pasted on a smile he’d never seen before. Must be her dating smile. He fisted his hands and stared at the collection of parenting magazines on her coffee table.
“Hey, you,” Eva said warmly.
Wow, you look amazing,” Jamison said.
“Thank you, and you don’t look bad yourself,” Eva responded.
