For the second time with shit she was saying, this timeespecially after that kiss, he couldn’t believe his ears.
“You’re notgonnacome to mebecause of your cat?”
“Again, not my cat, though he is because I’m claiming him.He’s my roommate’s cat.She’s a doctor without borders.And I suspect, sinceshe’s on stretch number two, she’s never returning home.So I’m taking this asan abandonment issue even though all of her belongings are still in myapartment, including her cat.But if by chance she does return, and she triesto reclaim my-cat-not-my-cat, I might have to catnap him and go on the lam.”
After she delivered that, so they didn’t have sex for thefirst time on his kitchen floor either, in that moment he considered it a verygood thing the bar was between them.
“Are you always this cute?”he asked.
“I hope so.Areyoualways this cute?”she askedback.
“I’m not cute, babe.”
“You so totally are,” she mumbled, again to the neck of herbeer bottle.
She took a sip and then grinned at him.
Okay, what the fuck?
Why was his dick getting hard just watching her grin?
“So, how many books do you have?”she returned to herearlier question.
“Bring your cat here, before your date-not-date.”
She huffed out a disbelieving laugh and asked, “You’re goingto hold my-cat-not-my-cat hostage so I’ll come to you after my date-not-date?”
“Yup,” he confirmed before he took his first sip of his ownbeer.
“And you wantmeto serve my-cat-not-my-cat up ashostage by bringing him to you before my date-not-date?”she asked, now smilinghuge.
He leaned into both forearms on the bar, his hands cradlinghis beer between them.
She hesitated only a second before she did the same thing sothey were close enough to start kissing again.
He didn’t kiss her.
“So we got our plan,” he decreed, because, as funny as shewas, he was done talking about her cat.“You come to me before you go to himand bring your cat.Then you come to me after.We talk.We drink beer.We watchTV.Whatever.We sleep together but do not fuck.And I’ll take you out todinner the night after, and that’s when we’ll sleep together, after fucking.”
“I guess we do have our plan since the brand-new biker guyin my life has just declared that’s the plan.”
“Affirmative.”
She started laughing soft and quiet andhellapretty.
And he knew they had their plan.
Only then did he relax.
“And I have no idea how many books I have,” he told her.
“Have you read them all?”
“Not yet.”
“Is that a goal?”
“Yeah.”
