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“It is, and the pay is more here, although I don’t do the job for the digits in front of the decimal. I like what I do. I could live with a smaller check.”
“Hey, I’m going to be making more at the country club than I ever have. I’m all about those digits right now.” She giggled, and I tweaked her nose.
“I get it. I think part of me wonders if I would be doing it because you were there.”
She compressed her lips momentarily. “That’s a no. You are not allowed to decide to take a job based on what might or might not happen with us. If things do work out, we’ll figure something out. Even if that means finding a house in between the two towns.”
I hesitated for a fraction of a second. “I did that once before.”
She looked confused. “What?”
“Changed jobs to be closer to someone.”
“Well, that’s even more of a reasonnotto do it.” She put her hand up to stop me when I opened my mouth to speak. “Lee, your past is your past. I don’t need to know anything else about it. Not really. I know you have been with other women, and you know I have been with other men. I don’t want to talk about what happened before. Okay?”
“You don’t want me to take the job?”
She laughed. “Not if I’m the reason you would be taking it. That would guarantee that things wouldn’t work out, and then I’d always worry that you were upset with me because I made you move to be closer to me.”
“I would never be upset with you about something like that.”
“You never know.”
I smirked and rolled to my back to stare at the ceiling. The fact that she didn’t want me to do it for her, made me want to do it. Was that weird?
Where did this woman come from? I mean, really? How could I be so lucky to have found her? Suddenly, I wanted to call my brother and find out more about the position. Had they filled it yet?
She leaned over me. “Where did you go?”
I pulled her face down to mine, kissing her slowly. “I’m here. I was just thinking about the job.”
“Well, whatever you decide, I’ll support you, Lee.”
The words I love you brushed over my tongue, but I clamped my jaw to keep them in. I’d been in love twice in my life, and both of those times had taken a while to allow that feeling to grow. The feelings that I had for Roxy were different, and I was suddenly afraid that if she went to Millerstown without me there, she’d meet someone else. I didn’t want to lose her, but I didn’t want to scare her either by telling her how I was already starting to feel.
“Thank you, Roxanne.”
She smiled playfully at me. “How thankful are you? Thankful enough to go another round?”
I rolled her to her back, careful not to hit her leg. “Honey, I will always be ready to go another round with you.”
* * *
I was backat work the next day thinking over the conversation that Roxy and I had the night before. I know she didn’t want to hear it, but I should have told her anyway.
I fretted over my choice not to, and Brett noticed. “Have a fight with Rox?”
“What?” I snapped back to the present. “No, I was just thinking about a conversation we had last night.”
“Yeah? Want to talk about it?”
“If a woman told you that she didn’t want to know about a past relationship, would you just leave it at that?”
His brows were high on his forehead. “She said she didn’t want to know about your past? Wow, every woman I ever dated, including my wife, wanted to know every woman I had ever been with and why we weren’t together anymore.”
“Did you tell them?”
“Yeah, but mostly to get them to shut up on the subject. Some of them got mad, some jealous. My wife said she didn’t care; she just wanted to know.”
