“An accomplished family.”
“If you only went down to the den you didn’t see Miss Leona’s awards. You’ll have to ask her to show you her office. She has two Oscars in there. It’s pretty impressive. But hey, the Buchanan legacy isn’t too shabby either. Your grandpa was a rodeo champ and your grandmother could ride a horse while doing a headstand blindfolded. She had plenty of trophies under her belt. Taught me, Sam, and our dad everything we know. You aren’t doing too bad for yourself either.”
“Yeah,” she replied, unconvinced.
When they stopped at her bedroom door, something in the air between them shifted.
“You owe me an apology for what happened between us when my grandmother died. Or maybe even before,” she said suddenly. “Did you apologize before? At any point before my accident?”
Zach managed to fight off his initial reaction when it came to Evie: shock, which he would have usually downplayed, but he couldn’t do that now. Not this time. No jokes, no turning on the charm. No bullshit. He scratched the back of his head, then let out a deep breath.
“In my mind I did, a thousand times. Five hundred of them this week alone, but no, I didn’t apologize to you and I didn’t apologize when I should have. I’m sorry, Evie. I was a dumb kid who didn’t know what to do or what to say at the worst time of your life and I hurt you. I’ll never stop wishing I could take it back. And I’m sorry that I never tried to make things right before now.”
“I wasn’t expecting you to say that.”
“Yeah, I figured as much, but it’s true.”
“Everyone seems to think that you’re trying to sleep with me,” she said, shocking him again.
“Is that what you think?”
“No. I think you—actually I’m not sure what you want.”
“I want you back in my life,” Zach admitted finally. “Not sure how that’s all going to work out, but a wise woman by the name of Leona Lovell told me that I shouldn’t rush things and maybe I should give you some space.”
“Hmm.”
“Do you know what you want?” he asked, quietly. It was struggle not to reach out and touch her.
“I don’t want to rush things either, but I don’t think I want space.”
“Oh? Alright.” Zach tried not to sound too excited.
“But I’m not sure if I can trust you.”
“Fair enough. Trust has to be earned. I just want to spend time with you.”
“You were in my dreams again last night. And this time we kissed,” Evie admitted.
“Oh word?” He couldn’t help smiling this time. It was all he could do to cover up the fact that most of the blood in his body was now rushing to his dick. “Was it any good?”
“I’m not saying. It was a dream, so that part doesn’t matter.”
Zach laughed. “Okay, then.”
“Blaire told me I should ask you about reverse cowgirl?”
Zach almost choked. “That’s an interesting suggestion from Blaire.”
“I think she was joking about asking you, but she did tell me to look it up.”
“How about we look it up together. Here.” Zach moved against the wall and sank toward the floor. Evie followed. They sat side by side on the painted tile as Zach pulled up the browser on his phone. The wordsSex position #150were the first thing to pop up. “We will skip right over videos because I don’t need to traumatize you right now.” He clicked on the images tab and the results weren’t much better. He scrolled past several awful memes before he got a pretty standard illustration. He clicked on it and handed Evie his phone. “There you go.”
“I don’t know why I didn’t picture this. It’s pretty self-explanatory. Do you like this position?”
Yeah, like Zach was answering that. “I mean, I don’t think it would work between me and you.”
Evie looked up at him, hurt in her eyes. “Why?”
