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“Okay. I’ll think about it. And if he wants to, then…”
“Girl, he’ll want to. That, you can count on.”
CHAPTER28
Dante
Ishifted in the seat, my heartrate increasing by the minute as I turned onto the road that led to Esperance. Four days. Four long, excruciating days of being on base and away from Lucy. It wasn’t meant to be like this. I wasn’t meant to miss her. But I did. I couldn’t help it. And resisting her was becoming harder by the day. If it weren’t for Stef staying, I would have taken Lucy to bed days ago, and fuck the consequences and complications.
No pun intended.
If I were lucky, maybe Stef would go out for the night and I could have Lucy to myself for a few brief hours. I wondered how and when spending the night sitting next to a gorgeous woman I couldn’t have anymore had become my favorite past time, but here we were. The supermarket was still open as I drove through town and on impulse, I pulled in, running inside to grab Lucy’s favorite ice cream—triple chocolate fudge.
When I stepped through the front door a few moments later, I stopped in surprise at the sight that greeted me. “What are you doing?”
Stef had just put her coat on and was pulling her hair out of the collar. “I’ve checked into a hotel.”
I frowned. “Why?” Had something happened? Had she and Lucy had a fight? It seemed unlikely. Looking at her closely, she didn’t seem upset, either. I glanced into the living room. Lucy was there, curled up at the end of the sofa, the lamplight soft on her golden hair. I bit back the impulse to roll my eyes at myself. Since when had I become so freaking romantic? Lucy caught the question in my eyes and gave a slight shrug. “Everything okay?” I asked, turning back to my sister.
“Sure. Everything’s fine. The venue for our next gig just cancelled so I can stay a while longer, that’s all. I figured it would be good to give you guys some space, so I’m heading to the hotel.”
“You know you’re more than welcome here.” I looked to Lucy for confirmation.
She shrugged. “I already told her that, but she insists.”
“Don’t stress. I thought I’d cruise down to Lacey’s. If I see anything I like, who knows, maybe the hotel room will come in handy. Unless you want me to bring a guy back here?”
I paled. “Fuck, no.”
“Exactly. That’s what I thought. I’ll call you tomorrow. Bye, Luce.”
“Bye!”
An Uber pulled up out front and honked its horn. Stef got up on tiptoe to press a kiss to my cheek and then she was gone, pulling the front door shut behind her, leaving me and Lucy in the house. Alone. The realization had my dick twitching instantly. It was hard enough keeping my hands off Lucy when Stef was around. Now that she was gone, I didn’t know how I was going to manage.
“Have you eaten? There’s left over apple pie in the oven.”
“Great, thanks.” I held up the shopping bag. “I got you some ice cream.”
The smile that lit up her face almost knocked the wind out of me. “Not triple chocolate fudge, by any chance?”
“You know it. You want some now, or later?”
“Later, I think. We just had dinner.”
“Okay.” In the kitchen, I put the ice cream into the freezer and fixed myself a slice of pie. “What’s new?” I asked, sitting down on the sofa and propping my feet up on the coffee table.
“Umm, I assume Stef told you she got a call from Naomi Perkins?”
Fuck. “She didn’t, no. Did she say how it went?”
“I was here when she took the call, and she put it on speaker. She was great, deliberately vague with her answers, totally sounding like a bit of an airhead, to be honest. Then she asked Naomi where she’d bought her amazing shoes and launched into a long and convoluted story about how she used to own a pair pretty similar, and how she’d lost them on a tour of…I forget where. I swear, I was exhausted by the time she finished the call.”
That made me chuckle. “Good for her.”
“Yeah.” Her face grew serious. “It’s still pretty shitty, though.”
“It is.”
