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“Yeah…” she replied. “Goodnight. Remind me not to go wandering for any more nighttime snacks.”
I gave a fake laugh and closed the door behind her, then face-planted into my pillows with a sigh.
Which was when I realized I hadn’t yet cleaned up.
Chapter Fifteen
Haley
“I’m sorry, what?” I said, looking across the table at Max, who looked both sad and guilty, and I wanted to throw my water in his face just to wipe that expression off of it.
Earlier that morning, I’d avoided James as I got the kids ready for school and then out the door. I had zero desire to talk about or even acknowledge what I’d walked in on the night before. A part of me hoped that it had just been a drunken nightmare—though, if I was honest, the size of his cock was a lot more like a dream than a nightmare.
No,I thought to myself as my mind drifted to it again.Bad Haley. No fantasizing about the boss.
But that worked about as well as you’d think it would. I couldn’t stop imagining what might have happened if I’d walked in there a minute or two earlier, before he’d finished. He had been thinking about me in my dress at the party. The partywhere we’d danced and talked and drank together. The dress I wore as we sat on the couch, a current between us drawing us together like magnets until we’d almost kissed and I had to run to my room to avoid doing something I’d regret.
Although, by the time lunch was over, I wished I’d just fucking done it since it didn’t matter anyway.
Max had shown up looking dashing as ever in a cream-colored sweater, his blond hair pushed back away from his blue eyes. I was thrilled to see him, but he seemed nervous and distant.
“So…” he said, looking around the restaurant. “How, uh… how was the party?”
“Fine,” I said briskly. I didn’t want to talk about the chemistry I’d felt with James, and I felt like I couldn’t really avoid it and talk about the party much, since that occupied most of my evening. “It was… fine. I missed you, though.”
“Oh,” he said, and the way he said it made my gut twist into knots. He didn’t seem happy about the idea of me missing him. Of me having fun and drinking without him. We’d never been that clingy couple, but I’d still be happy to know he was thinking about me when he was out with other people.
“Oh?” I repeated. “What’s wrong? You said you had some big news.”
“I, uh…” He glanced around like he was searching for something to rescue him, but then he sighed and looked directly at me. “I got a job.”
“A job?” I asked. “You already have a job.” Why would he need a job when he was a ski instructor at his uncle’s resort?
“Yeah,” he said, rubbing the back of his head, then letting his arm drop. “I applied ages ago, before we even met, but it’s too good of an opportunity to turn down. It’s a great career move for someone like me, and—”
“Wait, wait, wait,” I said, holding up a hand. “Slow down. What’s a good opportunity? What career move?”
“Shit,” he said, not meeting my eyes. “Okay. I guess… I should just tell you.”
“Yes, you should,” I said, crossing my arms. I was starting to get worried, but a sinking feeling in my gut knew what the end result of this conversation was going to be, even if I didn’t know the catalyst yet.
“Like I said, I got a job… at a chalet.”
“A chalet?” I said. “Like a European resort?”
“Notlikea European resort. It’s at the top chalet in Switzerland,” he told me.
I paused, confusion hitting me over the head to join in with the slight hangover I was still nursing.
“How are you going to work at a chalet when you live here?”
“Hales,” he said slowly, and I realized what he was saying.
Which was how we got to me saying, “I’m sorry, what?” as Max looked at me like a kid who got busted doing something bad. “You’re moving? Now? When we were just starting to make so much progress with my skiing?”
“You don’t need me for that,” he said quickly. “You’re doing great. I know you’ll be back at the big slopes in no time.”
“What about us, though?” I asked, though I knew what he was going to say before he said it.
