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I kissed him, long and slow and sleepy, and then rolled off the bed and out of his reach.
“Big sad,” Rock murmured, making me smile as I headed for the shower.
When I emerged, he was dressed and awake. “I’ll take you to work,” he said. “I should hit the gym anyway.”
As Rock drove me to the Muffin Tin, worry tried to press in around the edges of the ridiculous happiness I’d been feeling. What would happen when he left? We really hadn’t talked about whatever this was, or what we wanted. And Rock was leaving in two days to go back to Virginia.
We parked at the Tin and Rock helped me out of his big car and then walked me inside. Such a gentleman.
“Look who’s here!” Nattie sat at a little round table just inside the door.
“Hey Aunt Nattie,” Rock said, bending down to give her a kiss on the cheek.
“I am just so tickled at how this has all worked out,” she said, making me wonder what she was talking about. “It was such a relief to get your call, Rocky, because I had no idea how I was going to get ahold of that lawyer way out there in Europe. He seems to keep the same hours as his client, and it was just so nice to hear that I didn’t need to call him anyway.”
I shook my head. “Mr. Mulligan’s lawyer?”
Nattie nodded, and Rock stiffened slightly at my side.
“You never called him?” I wasn’t sure what to make of that news. Rock had told her not to call him? Why?
“Rock told me you two were getting along just fine and not to worry about it.” Nattie picked a crumb off the top of her muffin and pushed it into her mouth delicately.
“When was that?” I asked them both.
Rock didn’t answer, but his aunt did. “Right after you were at my place. What was that, Rocky? Monday?”
I turned to look at Rock. “You told her not to worry about finding another place for you to stay?”
He swallowed and then gave me his killer grin. “Look how it worked out.”
I couldn’t speak as my mind raced back through the week. Had he planned this all, then? Decided that if there was a girl in his house he might as well take advantage of the situation while he was in town? And then what?
“You might have told me,” I said, lowering my voice.
“What difference did it make?” Rock’s voice lowered too, and while his words weren’t what I wanted to hear, I could tell he understood why I was upset.
“So what?” I hissed. “You just figured I’d be your convenient fuck buddy for the week so long as you were here? And then what? You just head on back to your regularly scheduled life in Virgina?”
“I don’t know what happens at the end of the week,” he said, sounding a little bit sorry, but not sorry enough. “I thought we’d talk about it tonight.”
I shook my head. “I’ll make it easy for you. I can stay with Paige until you’re gone. I should have done that in the first place.”
“Drea, no—”
“Good luck in your game,” I said, anger and hurt warring for the premier spot in my chest.
Nattie looked confused at this exchange, and I could feel her eyes and Rock’s on my back as I headed to the back of the Muffin Tin to hide in the kitchen.
I was assuring myself that I would not cry when I spotted Paige in the back, sitting on a tall stool with a cup of coffee in her hand and a bowl of some kind of dough in front of her.
“Hey,” she said in a kind voice. “Did I just hear you announce that you’re staying with me?”
“You heard that?” I said, horrified. Had I been shouting?
“Bakeries are not known for their acoustics. But Drea, what’s going on? Last we talked the psychic had come through and your life was all rainbows and orgasms.”
“I was wrong.”
