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“What do you do for a living?” she asked.
“Also hard to explain, but I definitely don’t work for the government.”
“Good to know. We spooks aren’t allowed to date other spooks.”
He laughed. It was too bad that he had to break this off. She was pretty funny.
“Would you like to meet somewhere for coffee?” she asked.
When he didn’t immediately answer, she added, “Not to rush you, but I get a lot better read on people in person.”
Yeah, she wasn’t the only one. He couldn’t believe it, but he was actually tempted.
No, Tucker told himself.Don’t be insane.But he couldn’t think of a polite way to turn her down.
“Actually, forget I said that, please. It just occurred to me that I have no idea what my schedule looks like for the next week, so I probably shouldn’t try to plan anything. Sorry.”
Relief flooded through him. “No worries. I imagine scheduling can be tough for any spook.”
She sent three laughing faces, and he was embarrassed at how great they made him feel.
“It’s true. So you aren’t married, and your work is complicated. Do you live in your mom’s basement? No shame if you do. I just like to check.”
He laughed so loudly that Sundance startled. “Oh yeah? Is that a requirement for you, that your dates don’t live in a basement?”
“Not a requirement. But they have to be extra charming if they live underground.”
He kept laughing as he wrote, “I have a house. Above ground. There are windows and everything.” He hit send and wiped his eyes. This was weird. He never laughed like this. He didn’t spend time with funny people.
He didn’t spend time with any people.
“Cool. I like windows.”
For some reason, this struck him funny too, though it probably wasn’t, but now he was in a laughing mood, apparently.
“So, it’s Sunday,” she wrote. “Do you work on Sundays?”
“Sometimes, yeah, but not today.”
“Do you go to church?”
Wow, she was literally interviewing him. Maybe he should nip this in the bud since he had no plans for taking the job she was interviewing him for. He didn’t want to waste her time.
His hesitation caused her to say, “I take that as a no?”
Now he felt judged and defensive. “I have a church, but I skip a lot.” A lot was kind of an understatement, but he did have a church, and he’d gone to it a year ago for his niece Polly’s dedication. And he’d been to more than his fair share of weddings lately too. Of course, those had been in barns.
“I skip a lot too. I don’t like to go alone.”
For some reason this surprised him. He didn’t even know May and yet he pictured her with a loving family swarming around her.
“Sorry,” she wrote. “I just realized that it sounded like I was inviting you to church. That’s not what I meant.”
“I know,” he typed quickly, not wanting her to be embarrassed. “I didn’t take it that way. You don’t have family that go to your church?”
