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Recognition softened his features. “You talked to Annika?”
“Yes. I called on the ad, she ran my application, and gave me the keys today.”
His hands rested lightly on his hips and he looked at the ground. “She didn’t tell me the place was rented. I thought you were a squatter.”
“Why would that be your first thought?”
“We’ve had problems with them before. And your car is full of crap. Looks like you’re living out of it.”
“Don’t judge. I just moved and I haven’t had a chance to unpack. And that doesn’t give you the right to barge in on me when I’m in the bath. Or ever.”
He put his hands up in a gesture of surrender. “I didn’t know you were in the bath.”
“Well you shouldn’t just walk in.”
“I told you, I thought you were a squatter.”
“And I told you I’m not.”
Max seemed to be able to feel the tension in the room. He put his paws over his nose.
“My mistake,” Josiah grumbled. “I’ll get out of your way.”
He was out the door before I could say another word.
Max jumped up and sniffed around the room, following Josiah’s scent to the door.
I let out a long breath. Had that just happened? I probably should have been preoccupied with the shock of a man walking in on me naked—not to mention my extraordinarily embarrassing face-plant into a bathtub full of water—but all I could think about was how disappointing it was that he hadn’t asked for my name. Or offered his.
Granted, I knew who he was. I wasn’t usually good with names or faces, but how could I forget Josiah Haven?
We’d gone to different schools and he’d been two years ahead of me, but everyone knew the Haven brothers from Tilikum. They’d been right alongside the Baileys for being high school famous in the area, mostly because of sports.
And because every last one of them were as hot as a wildfire in July.
Oh yes, I knew Josiah Haven. I’d cheered against his football and basketball teams with my pom poms in hand, and cheered against him from the stands during baseball season.
I’d harbored a secret crush on the forbidden Tilikum high schooler.
He had no idea who I was, obviously. That didn’t bother me. How could he? We’d never met, or talked, or even hung out in the same circle. Colin had hated the Haven brothers, simply because they went to a rival school. And they’d beaten Pinecrest High at just about everything.
But my daydreams had been full of him.
I’d seen him since, too. Just a handful of times when I’d been in town visiting my parents. He always caught my eye, made my stomach tingle a little.
And now he’d seen me naked.
Great. I’m sure I’d looked positively alluring while I was falling on my face and flailing around in the bathtub, half drowning.
Awesome first impression, Audrey.
I sighed again and went back to the bathroom to clean up the mess and brush out my tangled hair. So much for a relaxing hot bath. Maybe next time I’d barricade the door to make sure no one came in. Max clearly wasn’t going to help in that department.
CHAPTER8
Josiah
I stalkedout of the house and back to my truck feeling like an idiot. Talk about awkward. I’d gone in full of righteous indignation at the apparent squatters in my house, only to find a naked girl in the bathroom.
