Best Friend's Daddy (A Single Dad Romance) by Naomi Niles

Author:Naomi Niles [Niles, Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Sam

I stared at Mia’s number for a full two minutes, trying to figure out what the hell was happening to me. I wanted to call her, I wanted to hear her voice and ask her out, but at the same time, I found myself in a battle with my belief system I had constructed for myself over the years.

I was Sam Burbank and Sam Burbank was a player. He was not the kind of guy who asked women out and took them to nice dinners at fancy restaurants. He was not the kind of guy who slept with a woman and then called her afterwards. He was not the kind of guy who believed in commitments or marriage or monogamy.

I focused on Mia’s name emblazoned on my screen and sighed. I was trying to talk myself out of calling her, but I still couldn’t escape the fact that I truly and sincerely wanted to. She hadn’t texted or called me since I’d left her place two days ago. I wondered if she would if I gave it a few more days or if she would just stay silent.

I kept wishing she would call me, just so that I’d have the excuse I needed to see her one more time. In the end, my patience gave way, and I ended up dialling her number and waiting with baited breath for her voice on the other end.

“Hello?” Mia’s voice was soft and tilted up at the end.

“Hi, Mia,” I said, trying not to stumble over my nerves.

“Hi, Sam.” She didn’t sound annoyed or surprised. She just sounded…normal. I was hoping she would propel the conversation along, but she stayed silent, forcing me to talk.

“Umm…hi,” I said again, stalling for time.

She laughed a little. “We already went through this part,” she reminded me.

“Right,” I said, shaking my head in embarrassment. “How are you?”

“A little busy, actually,” Mia replied.

It sounded like she was trying to cut the conversation short and brush me off. In some ways, that should have made it easier for me to just leave things as they were. Then I’d be preserving my lifestyle and getting out of this strange thing we had going without hurting her feelings.

And yet, her voice lit a fire under me, and I was forced to realize that I really, really didn’t want to leave things as they were. I wanted to see Mia again. I wanted to have sex with her again. And even more amazing, I wanted to talk to her again.

“I’m sorry,” I said. “I didn’t mean to bother you.”

“You’re not bothering me,” she replied gently. “I’m just at work right now.”

“Right,” I said, hoping that it was a good sign that she had taken my call, despite the fact that she was at work. “Any interesting new cases?”

“There always is,” Mia said, and she sounded slightly amused. “By the way, since you called, I just wanted to thank you for staying over the other night and taking care of me the way you did.

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