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“I did one as an elective. It was fun but hard work. I thought it’d be easy. And boy, was I wrong.”
“I bet you aced all your classes.”
She snorted. “No way. Caden was the smart one. I got good grades, but I felt like I had to work twice as hard as others to get it.”
“Not everyone has things easy in life,” he said, grinning.
“No,” she said. “I bet many look at you and think it’s easy, what you made of your life. That you’re your own boss and can do what you want.”
“You’d be right and they’d be wrong,” he said.
“It’s not easy having all that responsibility on your shoulders. Being on call all the time,” she said.
“I figured you’d understand something about that. It’s all on me. A lot of people rely on me. I’ve got no one to push a late night call off to and if something happened to one of my employees because I did that, I’d never be able to live with myself.”
“And that is what makes you such a great person.”
“Hence, the reason you were looking forward to this date all week,” he said, smirking adorably.
She laughed at how he brought it around to him again. Her hand moved over and patted his thigh. “I’ve been looking forward to a lot of things, but we’ll start with this. Then maybe when we are done, could you show me your house?”
“Sure,” he said. “It’s not too far from your brother’s. Your sister’s house is in part of the newer end. And I have to say, I wasn’t sure if you’d tell your family or not about me.”
“Is that a problem?” she asked. She wasn’t sure where he was going with this. “My boss knows.”
“No problem,” he said. “Not at all.”
He was grinning again. She wasn’t sure why and wouldn’t bother to ask. He’d tell her if he wanted to. And with the way he talked, she was positive she’d get it out of him at some point.
12
MADE HIM FEEL GOOD
The fact that Mia told her family about him gave him hope that this was going to be more than a few dates and move on.
They’d been on three dates so far, but this was the first they’d actually gone out and done something other than getting food.
He couldn’t remember the last time he did something fun like this and, like her, had been looking forward to this all week.
After last Saturday when they’d talked about all the things they liked or hobbies, he realized they had more in common than he could imagine.
From food, to music, sports and haunted houses.
Mia was full of surprises. Even wanting to go and see his house.
“This place is huge. And kind of creepy on the outside and it’s not even dark out yet,” she said when he pulled up fifteen minutes later.
“Just like I remember it,” he said. “It’s been years. Are you going to jump into my arms if someone scares you?”
“Would you care if I did?” she asked, batting her eyelashes at him. She was in fitted jeans this time. A baggier shirt with knee-high leather boots on. If he noticed one thing about her clothing, it was that she only accented one part of her body.
Top or bottom, the rest was a little less fitted. Though the shirt was tucked in, you couldn’t see her tiny waist, as it didn’t hug her.
She still looked stunning to him and put it together with her tan jacket that hit her waist.
“No way,” he said. “I have no problem getting my arms around you.”
He reached for her hand, threaded their fingers together and she grinned at him.
