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“I have to give you credit—I personally wouldn’t still be sitting here if I were in your shoes.” I give a low whistle. “I would have been out the door the second you told me Decker wasn’t coming.”
She smiles. “Trust me, I thought about it.”
My brows raise. “You did? What stopped you?”
Her smile turns coy. “I don’t know. You?”
I swear my breath catches, damned if it doesn’t. What’s up with that by the way, this is a work appointment? So what if we’ve been drinking wine and she’s touched me twice and I can’t stop the heat rising into my cheeks.
I’m not blushing, you are.
Ugh.
She is into guys.
She is not into me.
Decker.
Not you.
Your client.
Get that through your head and stop thinking with your tingling body parts.
I’m no better than a dude!
“Me?” I say with a laugh, not sure if I want her to laugh, too.
She doesn’t.
Ari only tilts her shoulder up in a cute little shrug, the way she’s done a few times already.
“Sure. You. Don’t you love a girls night out sometimes? I know we just met but it feels good to just have girl talk and not the pressure of impressing a man.” She signals to the bartender to bring us the check. “I’m over it.”
“I don’t blame you. This is why I haven’t dated in ages.”
She doesn’t look as if she believes me and when the bill comes, we argue over who is going to pay it. I assure her that Decker has given me enough cash to have paid for an entire meal, let alone four glasses of wine and a sub-par appetizer.
Reluctantly I slide off the bar stool and remove our purses from the bar top, handing Ari hers before nodding our good-byes to the staff who’d been serving us.
A breeze that wasn’t there when I walked in earlier greets us at the door, my hair whipping before settling back onto my shoulders.
It must be a mess.
“This was nice. Even though I was stood up.” Ari shifts on her heels, adjusting the strap of her purse.
I roll my eyes; I cannot help myself. “You weren’t stood up.”
She shrugs. “Doesn’t matter.”
“Of course, it matters, I don’t want you to feel bad he—”
“That’s not what I meant. I meant that it doesn’t matter if he was here or not. I told you, I could care less. I had fun.” She pauses. “Probably way more fun than I would have had with him, let’s be honest. You can stop acting like he and I would have had chemistry.”
Slowly, I nod. “Chemistry is important. You never know when you’re going to find it.”
She is so beautiful.
