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His pride would tell him he was fine on his own.
His ego would give in for another chance to be with her though.
The question was, how long could he last?
13
Got Cold Feet
“I’m running out,” Ivy said to Dahlia on Sunday.
“Okay,” Dahlia said.
She stopped and waited for her sister to ask her more, but Dahlia had her nose in her computer working on some spreadsheet or something.
She’d all but slapped the white glove at Brooks’s face over the phone on Monday, issuing the challenge to see who would cave first.
It was going to be her.
There was no way she was walking away from that one time they had a week ago.
And when she realized it’d only been a week but yet felt like a year, she worried this fell into the clingy category again.
She had time to change her mind before she made it to his house though.
If she lived alone, she would have put something sexy on and just had a long coat over it, then knocked on his door not even caring it was thirty degrees outside.
But she didn’t live alone and couldn’t do that without raising suspicions or getting a lecture.
She’d been in the car for ten minutes and was turning the corner to his street. She was starting to have second thoughts. Maybe he should have never used the word stalker to her because it sure the hell felt like it.
Before she could get to his house, she decided to turn around. She was getting cold feet.
She was a block away when her phone went off. She got to the stop sign and picked her phone off the seat and saw the text from Brooks.
She pulled over to open it. Son of a bitch.
Rather than text back to answer his question if she was busy, she called.
“Hello,” he said.
“I’m in the car. No texting and driving but can call hands free. Wouldn’t want to get a ticket, you know.”
“That wouldn’t be good,” he said.
She pulled back on the road and drove back around to his house. He was in for a surprise.
“I do know this sexy investigator though. I wonder if he can help out with tickets.”
“It’s been known to happen,” he said. “Though most don’t get them to begin with in my family.”
“Something tells me that your family doesn’t do anything to warrant a ticket.”
“Not usually,” he said.
“Was there a reason you wanted to know if I was busy?” she asked.
She was two blocks away from his house at this point.
