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Fuck this.
Opening up a new message, I started to type.
Me: Did you enjoy your evening?
I set the phone back down and stood there and stared at it.
Nothing.
A nauseating feeling hit me in the stomach. What if Saylor wasn’t answering because she was actually with him?
Annie’s words bounced around in my head. I couldn’t deny that I was falling for Saylor. But was I really ready for commitment? Did I even have time in my life for someone?
Pacing again, I thought about all the reasons to go over to Saylor’s place and even more reasons not to.
The next thing I knew, my cell phone was ringing and I was opening my eyes to the brightness of the sun shining into my living room. Sitting up on the sofa, I groaned; my body ached from sleeping on the couch.
Standing, I made my way over to my cell and answered without even looking.
“Hello?”
“Late night?”
Her voice instantly woke me up.
“Saylor?”
“You have the new ad campaign.”
“What?”
“The protein bars? The ads you had to have right away. They’re in your inbox.”
I was stunned. When had she done them? Trying to get my eyes to focus, I looked at the clock on my microwave. It was damn near one in the afternoon.
“Fuck!” I shouted. “I’m late. Thanks, Saylor.”
Hitting ‘End,’ I ran into my bathroom and to the shower, stripping my clothes off as I went. The cold water quickly woke me up while I soaped up and washed my hair.
Wrapping a towel around my waist, I rushed back out to my phone and pulled up my brother’s number.
Me: Slept in. Might be five or ten minutes late!
He responded almost immediately.
Rich: Don’t rush. You’ve got time. We just got to the church and Kris is changing Maddie.
I smiled. My younger brother and his wife, Kris, had had a baby two months ago, and she was being baptized today. I was the godfather, and if I showed up late I’d never hear the end of it from my mother.
Me: Do I need to bring anything?
Rich: Yourself to the church is all we need.
Unable to keep from smiling again, I rushed into the bedroom and got dressed in the suit I had picked out weeks ago for this day. The last person I wanted to let down in this world was my brother. He’d been caught up in some bad shit not too long ago when he was in college. I’d vowed to always be there for him. When he’d met Kris, his life had really changed for the better. Love had been good to my kid brother. I’d never seen him so happy.
As I rushed out the door, I grabbed my cell and hit her number. I had some explaining to do.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
