Shouldn't Want You by Jerica MacMillan

Author:Jerica MacMillan [MacMillan, Jerica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-10T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Ava

I’m not sure what to expect when I return to Danny and Eli’s room the next morning. Everything always looks different in the light of day, and as much as I ought to regret what happened last night, I can’t quite manage it.

I guess my past is proof enough that I’m terrible at doing and feeling the right things. Why should that change now?

Even if I don’t regret it, that doesn’t mean Danny doesn’t. Or that he wants a repeat. Or more than a repeat. Or …

Flustered, I yank my hair back into my usual ponytail, frustrated with myself for trying to make myself look like … more. More mature. More put together. Prettier.

Someone more like I imagine Danny would be interested in.

But the fact is, I’m a nanny. I need to dress for the job that I actually have, which means being able to crawl around on the floor with a two-year-old and end up covered in crumbs and goo. Danny was obviously interested in me last night, despite my uniform of leggings and a T-shirt.

I swipe on some pink gloss that’s hiding at the bottom of my bare-bones makeup bag, because even though I don’t normally wear it, the desire to do something more for my appearance needs to be fulfilled somehow. This is the best I can do. At the last second I also add a brush of mascara and a touch of blush. I don’t look particularly made up, but it does make me feel more polished, even if the gloss won’t last past breakfast.

With a deep breath, I grab my key card and shove it in my back pocket and head over to Danny’s room, my card for his room in hand.

Outside their door, I take a second to brace myself, running through the possibilities in my mind. Will he pretend like nothing happened last night? Do I want him to do that?

Or will he try to greet me with a kiss? Do I want that?

The thought of kissing Danny again makes me rub my thighs together in anticipation, but I don’t think we should do that in front of Eli. Not with our relationship based on proximity, as he put it.

And I can’t argue with the logic.

I’d never consider getting involved with him if we weren’t spending lots of time together every day, bonding over his son, living in the same house for weeks. Even though I’m not staying in their room while we’re on the road, I’m in there more than in my own. I have a suite, smaller than theirs but bigger than the apartment I lived in before I took this job. I’d do just as fine with a basic room for all the time I spend there. It holds my clothes and toiletries, my few electronics, and I see them in passing before bed and in the morning, and maybe for an hour or two in the middle of the day if Danny’s around.

We didn’t get a chance to discuss today’s schedule.

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