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“Yeah, I could eat,” he said, famished. It was the smells wafting up from the paper bag she was holding, and nothing to do with her.
She smiled and started walking towards the house. His eyes dragged up and down her form as she moved. She was wearing the same sweater she’d been wearing when he’d left the apartment that morning. It was one of his favorites.
The fact that he had favorites in Teagan’s wardrobe should have alarmed him, but he couldn’t blame himself. This particular sweater was icy blue and clung to her curves in a way that made it impossible to look away. The neckline dipped off one shoulder and even though she was wearing a t-shirt underneath today, sometimes she didn’t wear anything under it and her shoulder jutted out of the neckline. All creamy smoothness that he wanted to touch.
Her jeans hugged her hips and waist, tapering in like she’d had them tailored. She probably had. Teagan struck him as the kind of woman who took jeans to be tailored.
“Are you coming? Because you have the egg rolls.” She was standing in the open door, the light illuminating her from behind, and he’d been daydreaming about her fucking shoulder and thinking about her ass in those jeans and she was probably rightly freaked out now.
“Yeah, yeah… I’m coming,” he said, putting a little spring in his step to jog up to join her.
“Eric’s a jerk,” she said suddenly, and it dawned on him that she thought he was hung up on him. He should have been. What with everything that had gone on that day? He should have been agonizing over Owen finding out what he’d done and being disappointed. Teagan finding out and wanting nothing to do with him.
Fuck, Brad wouldn’t even forgive him for this.
But he couldn’t think. His brain was too foggy with her. Her long legs and her perfume that lingered in the air wherever she walked. It clung to every surface in the house, clung to him even until he got outside and started moving around.
“Oh, I know. He’s an ass,” he replied, smirking a little as he brushed past her. “And that’s all.”
“He didn’t threaten you, did he?”
“Put him out of your mind, Teagan,” he said. “I’ve got egg rolls, remember?”
She grinned and gestured around. “Just anywhere?”
He folded his legs and sat down on the bare floor, reaching into the bag.
She waited for a long moment and then joined him, crossing her legs and sitting in front of him. The food was between them, but as they ate, they placed it to one side or the other, scooting closer and closer as they spoke.
She talked about her day at the nursery with Britt. Apparently, a large shipment from Aster Hills had come in. Tons of tiny seedlings that needed immediate repotting. So that’s what she’d been doing all day between selling a few bouquets of cut flowers and a few potted plants.
“Your dad came by,” Jaxon said with a laugh, jabbing the chopsticks into the lo mein.
“My dad?” Teagan huffed out a laugh. “He was down here? He didn’t even call!”
“You jealous?” Jaxon asked, grinning over at her and she rolled her eyes.
“I mean, a little. He’smydad. What’d he say?”
Jaxon’s mouth tugged up. “Talked about you.”
Her eyebrows rose. “What’d hesay?”
“I mean, I’m not going to repeat all of it, but we talked about you, he apologized for your mom, and then gave me advice about the master bedroom.”
Teagan’s brow knit. “I’m sorry. What?”
“Renovations,” he clarified, laughing a little. “I don’t need any other bedroom tips.”
“I should hope not from my father, anyway.” She reached for the chicken, moving it around with the tip of her chopsticks before continuing. “What did he say about me?”
“Oh, he brought over an album of naked baby pictures and also told me every embarrassing thing you’ve ever done.”
She shot him a look. “Haha. Like there’s anything you don’t already know, anyway.”
“Oh no, there were five new ones I didn’t know about,” he continued, in the same matter-of-fact tone.
Her leg came out to kick him. “He did not.”
