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“Honestly, I’m just enjoying seeing how much you’re loving it.”
Misha grinned. “I think you’d enjoy it more if you tried it for yourself. We’re supposed to share.”
Jay picked up his fork and cut off a small piece of the cake, making sure to get part of the gooey inside as well. He quickly found out why Misha had been enjoying it so much. The flavor of rich, dark chocolate exploded in his mouth, and he was surprised that it wasn’t super sweet. Which worked for him.
“Isn’t it amazing?” she said. “They have some great chefs in this place.”
“I would imagine they pay for the best,” Jay agreed as he helped himself to another bite. “I’ll have to let Kayleigh know that we really enjoyed the food.”
“They need to hire a new printer, though,” she said. “Because someone really screwed up when they forgot the prices.”
Jay started to explain why that was when he caught the twinkle of laughter in Misha’s eyes. He chuckled. “I’ll be sure to mention that to her as well.”
Misha laughed, and Jay loved the sound of it. Her laughter made his heart light, and he hoped that she only ever found reason to be happy when around him.
He needed to put his past bad choices behind him and make sure that he made better ones from here on out.
Though they lingered over their dessert, eventually, they finished and left the restaurant. The night air had turned cool, and Jay turned the heat on in his car once they reached it.
After buckling her seatbelt, Misha rubbed her hands together. “I don’t think it was ever this cold in May in Atlanta.”
“Yeah. It is a bit chilly tonight. Do you have warm enough clothes for winter?”
“I doubt it. To be honest, I don’t think I truly comprehended how cold it really gets here.”
“Well, there are plenty of places around here with good clothes, though they won’t have much winter stuff in stock at the moment.”
“Mom told me yesterday that she decided that her first project in the crafting group is going to be learning to knit mittens for the three of us.”
Jay chuckled. “Well, you will definitely be able to make use of those.”
“That’s what she thought.”
He took his time driving back to the townhouse, in absolutely no rush to arrive and end their evening. But short of driving aimlessly around Serenity or parking somewhere, it did have to end.
Finally, he pulled into a spot in the parking lot of the townhouse complex. When Misha didn’t immediately undo her seatbelt and open the door, Jay switched off the headlights but didn’t turn off the engine so the heat would continue to flow from the vents.
“I really enjoyed this evening,” Misha said. “Thank you so much for arranging it.”
Jay shifted so he could face Misha more fully. “You’re welcome. I enjoyed it too. We’ll have to do it again sometime.”
She smiled at him, at first, but then it faded a bit, and her gaze dropped to her lap. Jay’s stomach knotted. Had he misread her reactions to them being together? Had his revelations earlier turned her off dating him?
“I really would like to do it again,” she murmured. “But I feel like I need a little clarification first.”
Jay was confused. “Clarification?”
“I’m not interested in being one of a few girlfriends you have,” she said. “I need to know exactly where I stand.”
“There are no other girlfriends,” Jay told her. “I haven’t been on a date in ages.”
“So that woman at the clinic last week? She wasn’t a girlfriend?”
Well, that didn’t make the knot in his stomach go away. If anything, it got tighter. This was another subject he really didn’t want to talk about. “Casey? You saw her?”
“I did,” Misha said. “And Janessa said she is your sometimes girlfriend.”
Jay would like to have a few words with his sister. But first, he had to have this conversation with Misha.
