“Sin,” Theodora says with a giggle, “you said you couldn’t wait to get rid of him. I thought I could help you out.”
Sinclair’s eyes meet mine briefly and I hold out a bottle of water to her. She takes it, her fingers brushing mine.
“Sorry, Theo. He’s with me all the time, he doesn’t have time to date.” She smiles sweetly, the same way she did when she asked me if I’d like to call her Sin like her friends do.
“Not forever though, right? See you around, Denver.” Theodora throws me a flirty wink before she turns and walks off.
“Can we go?” Sinclair asks, putting her hand over her mouth to stifle a yawn.
“Sure.”
She changes into her sweatpants and hoodie, and we walk out together, back through security. We’re back in my car before she speaks again.
“Theodora’s right. You can’t date while you’re my bodyguard. Hardly seems fair, does it? I mean, I can date if I want to.”
“Goes with the job,” I reply.
I reach out to start the engine, feeling her gaze on the side of my face.
“Denver?”
I pause with my hand on the ignition.
“Does it bother you?” she asks.
“No.”
I switch the engine on.
Sinclair reaches over and turns it off.
I turn to her with a gruff exhale. “I don’t need to date.”
“Don’t need to, or don’t want to?” She studies me and I fight the urge to tell her that she won’t like what she sees if she looks too deep.
“Both.”
“So you won’t date while you’re with me?”
“No.”
She purses her lips, glancing away and then back at me. “What else won’t you do?”
“Whatelse?”
She tilts her head, pulling her lower lip into her mouth. “Like, I dunno, maybe if you won’t date while we’re stuck together, then maybe that means you won’t flirt with other women, either? And you won’t carry anyone else’s bags, or open doors for them? You know, that kind of thing.”
She averts her eyes from mine as I study her.
“You want me to only do those things for you?”
She scoffs. “Not the flirting, my god, don’t get the wrong idea.”
“Noted. But the rest? You want me to?—”
“Only do those things for me,” she says, her eyes flicking to my face and away again just as fast.
“Anything else?”
