I tugged the hem of the shirt down further, but it did nothing to help the situation. “Look, it’s exactly as it looks, but what you’re thinking happened in there is not at all what happened. In fact, it’s the complete opposite of what you think happened. I would go so far as to say that there has been the biggest misunderstanding in the world!”
“Between you and JR?”
“No!” I snapped. “Between you and me!”
“But…I wasn’t misunderstanding anything. You came out of his house dressed in his shirt, right?”
“Yes, but?—”
“And you’re sneaking back to your house, because no woman tiptoes in a run across the grass this early in the morning.”
“Sort of, but?—”
“And you don’t want him to know; otherwise, you wouldn’t keep looking over your shoulder to see if he’s watching. Which he is.”
“What?” I gasped, my gaze whipping around, but I couldn’t see a damn thing.
“Oh, he’s there. You might not see it, but he’s watching, and he’s either enjoying every minute of this, or he’s thanking his lucky stars that he escaped you.”
“He didn’t escape me because nothing happened!” I hissed. “And don’t you go spreading any gossip about me.”
“I would never,” he said, holding up his hand.
Well, at least I had his word on the matter.
“But I can’t say the same for every other busybody on the street who is right now calling every single person they know totell them about the half-naked woman making a mad dash in the early morning for her own house.”
“I’m not making a mad dash!”
“Of course, now everyone in town is going to assume the two of you are together, and you’re sleeping together. Are you?”
“What?”
“Either one. I’m not picky.”
“We’re not together or sleeping together. I was arrested. You know this!”
“Detained,” he grinned. “But that still doesn’t explain how you ended up at his house at the end of the night. I heard he picked you up in the afternoon.”
“Yes, and he took me to the bar so I didn’t have to see my brother and his cougar fiancée.”
“Ah, so he got you drunk first.”
“No!” I pounded on the car.
“Oh, so you were easy.”
“That’s not what I said! There was no drinking. There was no sex. There was simply me going home with him to spend the night so I had someplace to stay away from Cuddlebug and Boo Bear!” I shouted.
Chuckling, he nodded at me, then something behind me.
Spinning around, I pulled the shirt lower to cover my ass, though I had a feeling it was already too late.
“Am I interrupting something?” JR asked, his eyebrow quirked in interest.
No words would come out. No matter how hard I tried, I was at a loss, and no amount of explanation would make any of this better.
So, with as much dignity as I could muster, I simply turned and marched back to my house and let myself inside, refusing to believe that JR just saw my ass hanging out of his shirt.
