“He loved them. Thank you so much. I wasn’t expecting you to come back again.”
“I missed our chats,” he says—and once again, I feel his loneliness, which squeezes my heart.
“I’m going to call Amos and let him know I’ll be having dinner with you tonight. What do you think?”
“I think I’ll risk being murdered by your delicious man—because I’m selfish and want you all to myself tonight. Just tell him I’ll get you home afterward. Or maybe I should sayyour homenow?”
My cheeks heat up because I can’t deny what he just said. Amos and I are practically living together—since the night of Nora’s party, he’s been sleeping at my apartment.
“Yes, I’ll head back home later, but don’t worry about taking me. Amos will want to pick me up himself, and he won’t take no for an answer.”
“Because he’s a control freak?”
“Something like that,” I say, smiling because it’s a perfect description.
I send a message to security and decide to call Amos once I get to Theo’s place. We’ll be having dinner at his apartment; he told me he wanted to cook.
I get into his car, and we pull out of the clinic parking lot. In the rearview mirror, I see the security detail following us, but after a stretch of road, we lose sight of them.
“Does your brother know about you two yet?”
“I think he suspects.”
“Honestly, I don’t know what he expected. He practically threw Beauty into the Beast’s arms. You two are young and gorgeous, alone in an apartment—how else was that going to end?”
“I think Ethan never imagined Amos would be interested in me,” I say, because I’ve analyzed it from every angle, and that’s the only conclusion I’ve come to.
“But he was wrong.”
“Completely. From the first time we met, there was a different energy between us.”
“Energy also known as sexual tension?”
“Theo!” I say, laughing.
The phone rings, and I smile when I see Amos’s name on the screen.
“Speak of the devil. We were just talking about you,” I say, hearing Theo chuckle.
“Lilly, where are you? Security just told me they lost sight of you.”
“On the way to Theo’s place. Why?”
“Yeah, I know the Greek picked you up, but he shouldn’t be driving that fast. Tell him to slow down; the security team will catch up with you.”
“Amos, it’s the middle of the afternoon. I’m fine.” At another time, I might have thought he was being overprotective, but after our talk in the bathtub, I know he must have enemies.
“I don’t want you taking any chances. You should know by now you can’t let your guard down. You’re my woman, Lillyana, and I have enemies.” He confirms what I’d already suspected was the reason for his concern.
“It’s four o’clock, handsome. What could possibly happen in broad daylight?”
Almost the moment the words leave my mouth, I hear Theo shout. “Oh, shit!”
With his curse, we feel a violent impact—and I’m shocked when I realize a car just hit us.
“Amos!”
“Lilly, what’s wrong?” he asks, because there’s no way he didn’t hear the crash.
