27 Ways to Find a Boyfriend by Tapscott Shari L

Author:Tapscott, Shari L.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

16

I know I can’t date Addison, but would I be a jerk if I asked her to skip her date with Gio?

Don’t answer that.

While I was in her closet, I could hear her talking to her dad. When Lydia brought up her date, it was like a fist jammed in my stomach.

“Are you sure you’re okay to drive home?” I ask Addison when I pull her car into the community center parking area. My truck is right where I left it the night before. Normally, I wouldn’t leave it anywhere overnight. But yesterday was different.

Spending the night on Addison’s couch was equal parts temptation and agony. Knowing she was just in the other room made it impossible to sleep, especially after the whole cinnamon gum episode in the hospital. The fact that Cocoa thought he needed out three times between the hours of two and four didn’t help either.

I’m tired, I’m unreasonable, and I guarantee you I would have kissed Addison if her dad hadn’t shown up this morning. If we were together, the first thing I would do is pay to have her house locks changed. But we’re not together. We can’t be together.

I was doing pretty good, focusing on work, and then last night completely derailed me. I don’t know what I’m going to do.

“I’m fine,” she answers after I put the car in park. She scans the area and then opens the door, trying to hide her donut pillow, acting like it was stolen from the back of a truck.

I smile to myself but keep quiet. Addison’s fun to tease, but I know where the line is. She’s pretty touchy about the pillow.

As quickly as possible, she rounds the car and places the pillow in the driver’s seat. She accepts my offered hand and slowly sits, gingerly turning in the seat to face forward. “I’m taking the next week off.”

“What?”

Addison looks up, her expression solemn. “I won’t go to work with this thing. You know the guys—they’ll never let me live it down. So I’m going to take vacation leave next week. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t mention it.”

I lean against the car. “They’ll give you a hard time, sure, but they’ll wait on you hand and foot. You’re already a princess around there; can you imagine if you upped your status to damsel in distress?”

She wrinkles her nose, looking awfully cute. “Damsel in distress is a step up?”

Laughing, I shake my head.

I have the strongest desire to lean down and kiss her goodbye—tell her I’ll bring takeout this evening, and we’ll hang out. But that’s not my place, and she has a date.

I have to ask—it will mess with my head all night if I don’t.

“Are you still going out with Gio this evening?”

She scowls as she gestures to the pillow. “With this? I don’t think so. I’ll call him to reschedule.”

Reschedule. Not cancel. Reschedule.

I force a friendly smile and step back. “Call me if you need anything, okay?”

She looks up at me and bites her bottom lip.

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