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Not Tom, my date, but Theo. The guy who appeared out of nowhere.
I looked from one, to the other, then back. My cheeks flushed and my heart rate kicked up so fast I got a head rush just like all the other times I ran into Theo.
“Theo…”
“You know him?” Tom asked, eyeing him and not in a good way. Like he had to pee again and wanted to do it on my leg. Maybe Tom was a little more manly than I thought.
I nodded, licked my lower lip. “This is Bridget’s boyfriend’s brother.” Since Tom knew Bridget from work, he didn’t need further explanation.
I looked to Theo. “What… what are you doing here?”
Tom and Theo shifted to give room to a man who helped a woman into her coat.
“Listen, Mal, I have to go,” Tom said before Theo could answer my question. He looked a little uncomfortable. Angry. Both.
My attention pulled my date’s way and I frowned. “What? Now?”
Now that we had dinner and we were supposed to have sex? Now when my panties were wet?
Theo leaned in a little. “Diarrhea,” he whispered, thumbing over his shoulder toward the bathroom.
Tom flushed redder than his hair. “God, shit. Fuck, I mean, not shit. Listen, I had a nice time and all, but I can’t um… yeah.”
He gave Theo a quick glance, then fled.
I stared out the glass entry doors and watched him disappear. Theo didn’t say anything, just seemed to be waiting patiently as I processed being abandoned by my date.
“Did that just happen?” I asked.
Out of the corner of my eye, Theo shrugged.
I turned to face him, smacked his arm. “I can’t believe you just told me he had diarrhea. You might be a doctor and all and talk about bodily functions all day long, but he must be mortified. Especially since you ran into him in the bathroom. He’s never going to talk to me again because of that alone. I mean, if it was reversed and that had been me, I’d literally move to another state. It’s that mortifying.”
I blanched at the possibility. I’d done some crazy stuff, but notdiarrhea on a date.
“It’s just a loose, watery bowel movement that can be explosive. He just needs to eat more fiber.”
My mouth dropped open. How could a guy so hot be so… blasé?
I spun around and aimed for the front doors. I had to get out of here and away from men with random facts about weird shit. Literally, shit.
“Are you serious right now?” I asked when I discovered he followed.
“Aren’t I always?”
Yes. Yes, he was.
“Did you drive yourself here?” he asked, following closely. Clearly, he wasn’t going to apologize.
“Yes,” I replied on a huff.
“I’ll walk you to your car.” He snagged my coat from my arm, and I had no choice but to stop so he could help me into it. “Come on.”
“Why were you standing there anyway?” I asked, shifting topics. Tom was long gone and wasn’t coming back. Not tonight and probably not ever.
“I came out of the bathroom behind your date, and I saw you. It would’ve been rude not to say hello.”
That was nice. And true.
