I love you, Stevie
I love you too
Feeling somewhat betterafter talking to Bode, I start the car and head home. There’s no use in focusing on all the bad. I need to push it out of my head and hope the statement from the team will let things settle down.
Fingers crossed.
ChapterThirty
STEVIE
“Is it weird I’m nervous for tonight?”
“Why are you nervous?” Bode wraps his arms around my waist and tugs me back into his chest. It’s my favorite place, being surrounded in his warmth.
“I’ve never hung out with the guys before.”
“You’ve hung out with Harper.”
“That was at the game,” I correct. “We had something to talk about and it made it easier. I don’t know the guys.”
Bode presses a kiss to my neck. “Then talk hockey. You won’t get them to shut up.”
“Easy for you to say. I want them to like me.”
Spinning me in his arms, Bode drops his hands on either side of me, caging me in. “Trust me, they will.”
“You sound so confident.”
“Because you’re an easy person to like.”
The softness on his face, the look of adoration, makes me weak in the knees. Who knew Bode Adams could make me feel so many things?
He’s been my rock this week. Through the barrage of comments and harassment I’ve gotten, I couldn’t have made it through without him. And with the endless cancellations at work, I’ve been twiddling my thumbs at the spa.
With no clients, there’s no money coming in.
It sucks, plain and simple.
Before I can say anything else, the front door opens and pattering feet carry themselves into the kitchen.
“Hi, Bode!” One of Marcus and Harper’s daughters comes running around the island. “Where’s Caleb?”
“What am I? Chopped liver?” Bode laughs.
“We want to play with him. We liked making him laugh.”
“He’s in the living room,” I tell them. “C’mon.”
Spinning her around by the shoulder, I lead her into the living room. Caleb is sitting in the pack ’n play we set up for him. “You’ve got some people that want to see you.”
Lifting him out, she immediately starts cooing over him. “He’s so cute.”
The guys filter in through the door, as Harper and the rest of her kids walk toward us.
“Hey, Stevie.”
“Hi. I’m glad you guys could come over tonight.”
