I shouldn’t be surprised. This is the same guy who told me his job was to watch everyone and know where they all were at once so he could prevent what happened the one night we worked together. The same guy that the neighbors tell me waters their flowers and mows their lawns when he notices a need.
The same guy who offered a stranger a place to stay after she got fired from what would’ve been a really great job.
“Remember Vitamin Guy?” I say.
His dark brown eyes meet mine. “Who?”
“Vitamin Guy. That night we worked together. The one who trapped me by the bathrooms to try to convince me to buy his vitamins?”
He frowns. “No.”
“For real? You don’t remember the guy I threw up on at the aquarium?”
He stares at me for a long moment, and then it happens.
One corner of his mouth tips up in a sly grin.
“Oh my god, you—argh.” I throw a cracker at him, call him a bastard in Italian, and then something even worse happens.
He grins at me.
Full-on smiles so broadly that his entire face lights up with mischief and amusement, and someone please protect me from myself.
He’shot.
Sexy hot.
Gorgeous hot.
Plus,heapologized for being a bear yesterday. Then came back and took care of me while I was sick.
And here he is, showing up again with exactly what I need to calm my stomach.
I need to move.
“What about Vitamin Guy?” he asks.
Vitamin Guy.
Who’s Vitamin Guy?
What are we talking about?
“The guy you threw up on the night we met?” Holt prompts.
My brain is still riding theholy shit, he’s hottrain, but it finally pulls intowe can be normalstation. “He’s my former best friend’s brother-in-law. I danced with him at her wedding—which wasnotenjoyable, by the way—and he didn’t remember who I was. When I puked on him, I mean. He didn’t remember me from the wedding. Or any of the other times we met.”
Holt straightens, the smile dropping off of his face.
The fuck?
Why is Mr. Growly-Face even hotter right now than Mr. Smile?
“Why wasn’t it enjoyable?” he says. “Did he do something? Isn’t he married? I swear to fuck, he was wearing a wedding ring.”
This is pregnancy hormones. I’ve switched from first-trimester morning sickness to second-trimester horniness. This is the only explanation.
Focus, Ziggy.
