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“Hey. You okay?” she answered.
“Yeah,” I replied.
Eddie handed me a coffee and upended the bag on the counter. Two enormous blueberry muffins fell out.
“Where are you?” Indy asked as I took a sip of coffee. Cappuccino, no sugar, just like I took it.
Eddie knew how I liked my coffee.
Um…eek!
Eddie leaned a hip against the counter less than a foot away from me, tore off the muffin paper and took a bite, sliding the other muffin to me.
“Eddie’s,” I answered Indy and looked fully at him.
His eyes were on me and my face began to burn. Something about this was bizarrely intimate and I wasn’t ready for it. I’d had too many emotional traumas to stand around in Eddie’s kitchen calmly eating muffins like I did it every Sunday.
I dropped my head and put my coffee on the counter. I tried to take the paper off my muffin one-handed and felt a new appreciation for my mother’s disability.
“Lee tells me Eddie’s branded you,” Indy shared. “Never heard it called that before, but Lee did it with me during my ordeal. Beat the shit out of the guy who hit me, spreading a message. It’s a good thing, Jet.” She was obviously trying to talk me into trusting Eddie and not going into a full-fledged freakout.
Too late. I was way past freak out. I’d look back on my endless freakouts with happy nostalgia. Nope, I was in “Pissed Off Female with a Score to Settle” mode.
Except, of course, when it came to eating muffins in Eddie’s kitchen.
“Eddie explained it last night. I’m okay with it,” I told Indy.
I’d managed to get the muffin cup off and tore the bottom of the muffin free. I took a bite and Eddie’s hand came into my vision.
I looked up at him just as he cupped my jaw.
“Say good-bye,” Eddie ordered, his eyes warm.
My stomach clenched and I gulped down my bite.
“Is that Eddie?” Indy asked. “Tell him hello.”
“Indy says hello,” I said to Eddie.
Eddie’s head came down.
“Good-bye,” he muttered against my mouth.
I turned my head to escape his mouth.
“Eddie says hello too,” I told Indy, feeling like an idiot, but keeping her on the line as if my life depended on it.
Eddie’s mouth detoured to my neck and tingles spread from my neck south.
Indy laughed. “I heard what he said. I’ll let you go. See you tonight.”
“No!” I cried desperately, but she disconnected.
I took the phone away from my ear and flipped it shut. One of Eddie’s arms wrapped around me and he pulled me tight to him. I felt his tongue touch below my ear and the tingles intensified.
My phone rang again.
His head lifted, and just before I could flip it open and embark on a very, very long conversation with whoever called me, he pulled it out of my hand, looked at it and then opened it with his thumb and put it at his ear.
