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And after last night, I didn’t want to leave Lock Downy.
I swallowed hard and looked away, wondering if I could make the hour-plus drive here once a night just so I could see Lock.
Then I realized that no, without a steady job, I couldn’t make that drive often. Gas was freakin’ expensive.
Pissy now and thinking that this couldn’t possibly get any worse, I grabbed a box and exited my apartment, heading straight for my car.
Only I never made it to my car because someone called my name, making me stall in my tracks.
The last person in the world I expected to see first thing that morning as I was loading my car up was Lock.
But as I glanced up, there he was.
He was in uniform, and my breath stalled in my chest.
“Wow,” I said, taking it all in. “You look, ummm….”
“If you say I look like an extra out ofChips, I’ll take back everything that I said to you last night about you being beautiful.”
I started to giggle.
“That actually hadn’t even crossed my mind.” I looked behind me to see where my parents were in correlation to where I was standing. When I remembered that they had left to get the U-Haul, I turned back. “I was going to say fuckable.”
Lock’s grin was infectious as he said, “That’s allowed then.”
My smile was pure feminine satisfaction.
“What are you doing here?” I asked as I looked at my watch. “It’s not even six in the morning yet.”
He gestured to his police-issued motorcycle.
“Working…or about to,” he admitted. “I don’t start for another thirty minutes.”
“Oh,” I paused. “What are you doing here?”
He looked at my boxes, then at me.
“I talked to my mom last night,” he said.
I blinked. “Okay…”
“My mom owns her own business,” he continued.
I stayed silent, wondering where he was going with this.
“My mom owns an independent imaging company that caters to soon-to-be mothers.” He kept going. “She does sonograms and shit.”
My lips peeled away from my teeth as I started to laugh.
“Your mom owns Baby Gaze?” I guessed.
I’d applied there but hadn’t ever heard back.
“Yeah,” he nodded. “That one.” He started walking toward me and took the box right out of my hands. Placing it on the hood of my car, he started explaining. “She opened the place up a couple of years ago. Something that she wanted to get started and do on the side while my dad worked. Something that she could do at her own pace, in her own way.”
I nodded.
That sounded like heaven.
