She took out two plates and filled them. Placing them on the table, she sat across from me. “You try it first.”
“First of all, it smells great,” I said. Taking a bite under her expectant examination amused me. “It’s good!” She kept looking at me as I chewed on the first bite. “Nothing like the chicory coffee. I swear, this is really good!”
She smiled, her shoulders rising, her lips tightening, a little breathy laughter catching in her throat, as if she were trying to contain pride and happiness and lock them within.
Yep, June was still repressed as fuck. Okay, not as fuck, because when we fucked, she wasn’t repressed at all.
While we ate, she told me she found a new employee for her Wayford shop. “He’s got enough experience to quickly take on the managing role, so I’ll move Dharma back there, and with Adam there, too, Wayford will be fully staffed. And Rio will be interviewing someone tomorrow for the branch here.”
“Can he handle the son of a bitch who came into your shop today?”
“Who—the one who threw someone out on their ass?” She grinned.
I laughed. “Not that son of a bitch; the other one.”
June laughed.God, it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.
“Yes, he can handle him,” she said. “And I think you’re right that other son of a bitch won’t come back any time soon. Pity though, he did buy his daughter half the skincare shelves last time.”
“Did you tell Rio and Adam you’re taking tomorrow off?”
“I texted them, yes. Dharma will be in Wayford tomorrow with Adam.”
“What did you tell Rio?”
“Nothing, but I think she knows it has to do with you.”
“It does.”
“Dharma asked me about you the other day.” June angled her head.
“Did she?” I mimicked her head angling.
“She has her eyes set on you.” June played with her fork, tilting it above her plate like a pendulum. “She’s a nice girl.”
“Okay.”She is. So was Amber. A girl. I’m not interested anymore. You’re a woman, June.
“You’re still in love with Amber?” She looked at me.
I nearly choked on my bite. “No.”
“A woman you wanted to marry and you’re over her so soon?” She put the fork beside her plate.
Okay, so this wasn’t the right time to tell her I had fallen in love withher. She’d dismiss it immediately.
“It’s been eight months. And I now know that I didn’treallylove her.”Because if I did, I wouldn’t have fallen in love with you.
June took a sip of water.
Treading lightly. One wrong move of mine …
“So, is this a rebound thing?”
“You mean you? A rebound? June, if I wanted a rebound I would have gone for a Dharma. Besides …”
“What?”
“I already had my rebound over her months before I married you. In fact, it was soon after we broke up, which is also an indication. When you’re really in love, you don’t feel like touching anyone else, regardless if they’re with you or not.”Ask me how I know.
