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But was the possibility of his disapproval worth giving up the possibility of something with Sav I’d only ever dreamed of?
It was hard to tell. I was at war with myself, not knowing or understanding the next step, but I needed to figure it out soon. Sav would eventually want answers like she did back when I was better at hiding my feelings for her. I could keep them shoved down where they were easier to ignore. Now, it was as if they were waking up to the world and recognizing what the connection between us had always been.
With a sigh, I turned back to Sparks Bookstore and went inside. I wanted to find Sav and kiss her again, but she was nowhere to be found. She wasn’t in the office or at the registers. She wasn’t in the small breakroom they had, and she wasn’t upstairs.
Maybe she was in the bathroom, but I wasn’t going to creepily wait outside for her, so my only option was to get back to work.
Jackson returned shortly after I’d gotten back to work, and we decided to move more inventory since there was more space downstairs. We worked in tandem, packing carts full of books. Some of my employees showed up around this time too, ready for that overtime pay I’d offered to anyone willing to come in Saturday and help.
Everyone found their place in the chaos, working to clear more of the area and set frames for the walls we were installing next week. Everything went much quicker, and Jackson didn’t have to do much heavy lifting.
After a while, I grew sweaty and stopped to take a drink from my water bottle. We’d been working for about an hour and a half and were nearing the end of what needed to be done. I leaned against the railing where one could look down and see the first floor.
Sav’s laugh stood out to me. Then I heard a distinctly male voice talking as she laughed more. I wondered if it was Lucas, back to stake his claim again like he’d done at the dinner party a few nights ago.
I thought he was out of town. I hoped he was.
I charged down the stairs, ready make myself a third wheel and try to keep her from giving him too much attention.
I thought about the way Sav had laughed with him all night, and how I had to work twice as hard to get those laughs out of her.
I rounded the corner and found her standing with one of my employees. He was young and a newer member of the crew. He grinned hungrily at her as he said something else, and she laughed again. He had a self-serving smirk that pissed me off, even though the guy was doing nothing wrong.
“Dylan,” I barked, making them both jump.
He glanced at me guiltily. “Yes, sir?”
“Rene’s been handling half the job by himself up there while you’re flirting down here. Get upstairs and help him now or I’m docking your overtime pay.”
His eyes widened. “Yes, sir,” he repeated and then scurried away.
Sav snorted. “Wow, did you have to be such a caveman?”
My gaze shifted from the direction Dylan had disappeared back to Sav. She was glaring at me with her arms crossed.
“What’s your problem?” I asked.
Her glare turned to a blazing fire in her eyes. “You’re the one with the problem. Why were you being all threatening and weird?”
“He’s got work to do. You shouldn’t be flirting with him and distracting him.”
She flinched back, covering her chest with her hand. “Excuse me? So what if I’d been talking to him fortwo minutes? Where do you have the right to say anything about it?”
She stepped forward, poking me in the chest with her finger. There was a pain in her eyes, and I felt like a jerk. Today was supposed to be a good day, but I was ruining it by being jealous.
What was wrong with me? I didn’t get jealous.
Especially not insanely jealous over something trivial like laughing, but the back and forth between us made me crazy.
“You flirt with every woman that walks by, and I can’t chat and have a little laugh with one of your coworkers? I wasn’t even flirting with him.”
“He was clearly flirting with you.”
“Oh no, sound the alarms! Someone flirted with Sav for five minutes, news at five.”
Damn, what was I doing? I was pushing her away.
It was becoming insanely obvious that I didn’t know how to do this. How to show her I cared without taking things to the extreme.
