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On the phone.
She turned around just a little bit and shimmied, and heard his voice go tight. “Yeah, Steve. It’s all going well. Like I said.”
She turned around, her eyes wide. Because of course he was on the phone with her dad.
She scowled fiercely, then looked at her phone and saw that she had a missed call from her dad. So that was her bad.
“Yeah. Frankie is doing great. No. Because that guy was a bastard. She doesn’t miss him. She didn’t need him.”
She rolled her eyes.
“Yeah. I’ll tell her to give you a call.” He looked like he was ready to choke. “Yeah. Definitely keeping her busy.”
She grinned, and bit her lower lip, treating him to a mischievous look. He gave her a warning stare.
“Yep. Yep. I’ll have her call you.”
He hung up the phone. “You are a bad girl,” he said.
“Oh,” she said. “Daddy, you’re so mean.”
“Donotsay that.”
“Why not?”
“You know why not.”
She smiled. “Because you like it?”
He made a helpless, deep sound in the back of his throat. “You’re going to be the death of me, Francesca.”
And she couldn’t deny she liked that a little bit too. “Don’t call me that.”
Because it seemed different and special, and she was trying to avoid that. It was one thing to tease. It was another to let things get too deep.
She had successfully managed to not cry when they had sex, and she really didn’t want to start doing that. Because if she let herself marinate too much in her feelings, then she would.
And it would be a mess. A mess that she simply didn’t need. A mess they didn’t need. Because they were trying to have this thing. Trying to keep it light and easy, trying to keep it fun. And it was. She liked him. That was the thing. She had always liked him.
She wrinkled her nose.
“What?” he asked.
“Well, I am just slightly concerned,” she said.
“About?”
“How it’s going to feel to put my bare butt on these chairs when we sit down to eat.”
“You didn’t think that through, did you?”
“No,” she said crisply. “No. I just wanted to make things a little bit...hard for you.”
“Mission accomplished. And I don’t want you to put clothes on. So what if we take the food to bed?”
Which was how they found themselves in bed with hamburgers. An interesting situation.
“Tell me about your first boyfriend,” he said, when they finished eating, shoving all the plates on to the nightstand and reclining on the bed.
