Stacy watched Jocelyn’s facial expressions.
From frustration to annoyance and finally acceptance.
“I’ll deal with it when or if I see them again. But now I’ll have to tell Chance and I’m not sure I want to do that. I don’t know how he’ll react.”
“Why is that?” she asked.
“Because to him this is fun and I’m okay with it. For now.” Jocelyn put her hand up. “Before you say another word that I don’t want to hear, we are going to do it on our own, so please respect it.”
When her daughter threw Gabe’s words back, they had no choice but to listen.
20
HAVE SOME SECURITY
“So your parents know,” Chance said two days later.
They were at her place again for dinner. In the end, she decided to not let him know what the Fierces were up to.
She didn’t know Chance well enough to judge his reaction. The last thing she wanted was him to get turned off by it and flee.
It’s not like she could control anything other people did.
She’d tried that before and it wasn’t always the best outcome.
“They do,” she said. “Gabe too. He heard me yelling at them.”
“Yelling?”
She wasn’t sure what to make of his frown. “Yes. I don’t like people interfering in my life.”
“Got it,” he said.
“They are fine with it. I mean my father knows you. He likes you. Gabe too. So don’t worry there.”
“I don’t really care all that much about people’s opinions of me.”
This time she frowned. “Oh really?”
He grabbed her by the arm and yanked her to his chest, her body slamming into him, a laugh escaping. “I care about youropinion of me, but since you like me in your bed I know where that stands.”
She had to fight the urge to grind her teeth. Leave it to him to suck the fun out of the moment. That one comment said everything about how he really saw what they had. Again.
And that meant someone trying to make them a couple wouldn’t fly if he wasn’t even open to the possibility.
“I hope we are exclusive,” she said. She didn’t know why that thought just popped into her head, but if all he saw her as was a fuck buddy she wanted to make sure he wasn’t doing it with anyone else.
“Of course,” he said. “That goes without saying. I’d like to think I don’t even have to mention it to you.”
“Nope,” she said. “Considering I haven’t had sex before you in almost two years, you can tell it doesn’t take a priority in my life so I sure the heck wouldn’t hurt someone by cheating on them.”
His lips dropped to her neck. “It seems to be a priority now. I mean, you’re the one who came to me.”
She laughed. As much as she wished there was more to what they had, she enjoyed the banter and flirty play too.
As her mother said, she needed to just let this play out and stop looking ten steps in advance.
Could be deep down if the Fierces thought Chance was a good match for her, there was some hope.
