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He’d managed to beat her to his house but barely when he looked at his watch.
When the garage door was shutting he saw her pulling in and hit the button for the other side to open up, then waved her over to it.
“Are you sure you want me to park here?” she asked, getting out.
“Why not?” he asked. “No reason for you to leave it out and have frost on it in the morning.”
“I’m used to having to clean my car off or warming it up. I might get spoiled this way.”
“Get spoiled,” he said.
He held the door open for her with his foot while he carried in the wine and food.
“What did you buy?” she asked.
“Pork chops, rice and carrots,” he said. “I’ve got snacks here already.”
“You’ve got lots of snacks here,” she said. “And eggs and bread. If I can get up early enough I might even make you some breakfast.”
“Now that is sweet,” he said. “But I’ll make it since you’re doing dinner. I can handle scrambled eggs and toast. I eat it enough.”
“I’m going to let you do that,” she said, bumping into him on purpose.
She moved past him into his room. She had a suit on a hanger. “Just put your clothes anywhere.”
“I planned on it,” she said, letting out a laugh.
He went to the living room, turned the TV on to the football game. He’d planned on being home by four anyway to watch the Giants, but for now he’d settled on this game.
Mia came out with her laptop bag and pulled her laptop out, settled on his couch and opened it up. “You know the time I wasted moving around today? I could have just stayed here.”
“You could have,” he said. “Maybe you’ll consider it going forward on the weekends. If it works?”
“I can make it work,” she said, winking at him.
He’d take it as another step in the right direction even if he didn’t get to say that he loved her.
18
WANT TO CELEBRATE
“We’ve got the wine,” Mia said, walking into her brother Caden’s house two weeks later for Thanksgiving.
Her parents were already there. Morgan and Cooper would be over soon and she wanted to get here before Sarah’s side of the family so that she could introduce Cal to everyone.
“I’ll take it,” Sarah said. “Did you bring the whole store?”
She grinned. “I had to stop Cal. I told him eight bottles was too much.”
He would have brought a case, but she’d told him they weren’t lushes. He reminded her the bottles weren’t big and there were twelve adults there.
That’s when she said they didn’t each need a bottle a person. Not everyone drank wine, the guys would have beer most likely and the women weren’t getting drunk.
“I wanted to make sure there was enough,” he said and put the box down on the counter.
“More than enough,” Caden said. “Nice to see you again.”
“You too,” he said, shaking hands with her brother, then Sarah.
