The Calling by Jill Sanders

Author:Jill Sanders [Sanders, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grayton Press

Chapter Eleven

Joleen felt like laughing. “Right,” she said and rolled her eyes. “You can’t sit there and tell me you haven’t had women knocking down your door since the moment you stepped foot on campus. It’s something I just can’t buy.”

“Believe it,” he said as he looked towards the house. “I was thirteen years old when I first arrived on campus. It was not easy to get dates.”

“Yeah, but now, you must be fighting them off. I mean, you’re basically Channing Tatum with sexy glasses and a huge brain. What woman doesn’t want to go after that?” she said, feeling her own heart beat faster at the description and just remembering him in those sexy glasses.

She could tell that she was making him uncomfortable and, since the rain had let up, she reached for her door handle and climbed out.

They walked up the pathway, and she laughed when she noticed Stinky standing on the back of her sofa, watching them from the living room window.

“Guess he got bored.” She motioned to the house.

Mason looked relieved that she’d changed the subject. They walked towards the front door as Stinky happily barked at them.

“He only barks when he sees or hears someone,” Mason said to her. “The hotel manager had probably been standing outside the door or passing by earlier.”

She chuckled. “I don’t have any neighbors to complain about the noise. Besides, dogs are supposed to bark and scare people away, right?” She opened her door.

Stinky rushed towards them, did a couple of circles, then bolted outside and peed on the dead flowers in the pot of dirt on her patio.

“Sorry,” Mason said quickly. “I’ll clean—”

“Don’t bother. Maybe by him watering them, they will grow back.” She laughed and stepped into her house, quickly looking to see if anything was out of place. “He probably just curled up on the sofa and slept the entire time we were gone,” she said to the room.

“I think he was holding it for a while,” Mason said from the doorway as he watched Stinky roaming the front yard for a spot to finish going. “I’ll clean that up in the morning when I can find it.”

She walked into the kitchen and pulled out a bottle of wine. She wasn’t ready for the night to end. She was having too much fun talking to Mason. “So, when was the last time you dated?” She glanced over at him, picking up the conversation from before.

Stinky had just jogged back in and climbed back onto the sofa like it was the most comfortable spot in the world. Mason shut the front door and then turned to her.

She held out a glass of wine for him and then sipped from her own glass.

He tilted his head as if thinking about it.

“I guess it was about a year ago.”

“Dated or just went on a date?” she asked, sitting next to Stinky. The dog immediately inched over and laid his head on her lap.

“Just a date.” Mason walked over and sat down in the chair facing her.

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