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“Now you’re just setting me up,” he said, wiggling his finger at her. “I’m no fool.”
“No, you’re not a fool, but I would like to know. You know some of the things that annoy me.”
“Okay. One thing.”
“What is it?” she asked.
“You nibble on your thumbnail when you’re thinking. And you click your teeth against it.” He shuddered. “It’s annoying.”
She laughed. “My old roommate told me that too. I guess I didn’t realize I did it as much.”
“Roommate?” he asked. “You didn’t tell me you had a roommate.”
“In college,” she said. “After college the only roommate I had was Morgan. We shared a place for a while and then each decided we wanted our own place. I wanted one closer to my office since I was working later and she wanted one closer to hers. We were still close but not living together. Have you ever lived with a woman?”
“Nope,” he said. “You with a man?”
“No more than what you and I do,” she admitted. “I’ve never gotten serious enough with someone to want to do it.”
“The same.”
“And though I love you, I hope you aren’t thinking of asking me to move in,” she said. “It’s kind of early.”
She could tell by the look on his face it might have crossed his mind, but no way. That would be jumping faster than she’d ever done in her life and she wasn’t about to do it.
“It is,” he said. “No, I’m not suggesting it.”
“Good,” she said. “I like what we’ve got.”
“Me too,” he said. “Why don’t we change and go watch TV in bed? It’s been a long week for you.”
“It has and that sounds like a great way to spend the night.”
She just wanted to relax with him.
Mia knew the past two weeks hadn’t been good for him, but he didn’t want to talk about the anniversary of his parents’ death.
She’d brought it up once and he said he was fine. She had to accept he was and not push.
She’d brought up his loneliness once to him and he brushed it off. Only one other time did he say that it was hard to do something even when he knew he should.
She just had to let him have his space and try to relax when they were together.
The calm she wanted tonight didn’t last long though when she heard a phone ringing.
Cal reached over to his bedside table and grabbed his phone. “Hello? What? Yeah, I’ll meet you there in twenty minutes or so.”
“What’s going on?” she asked. She hoped to hell it wasn’t his grandfather with as fast as he was jumping out of bed.
“There was a break-in at the liquor store. That was the police.”
“Oh my God,” she said. “Was anyone hurt?”
“I hope not. They were closed, but my alarms were tripped.”
“I’ll go with you,” she said, getting out of bed. He had the light on in the closet and she heard him pulling clothes off of shelves.
“No, you can stay here,” he said. “I’m not sure how long I’ll be.”
