19
Felix
The whole elevatorride back up to my apartment was spent bouncing on the balls of my feet, too excited to contain myself.
I couldn’twaitto tell Kieran everything.
“Honey,” I called out as soon as I practically fell through the door, right on the verge of bursting into stunned laughter all over again. “I’m home!”
My mouth went dry as Kieran looked over at me. Over the edge of his tiny gold-rimmed reading glasses.
Spread out on my sofa.
Wearing nothing but his underwear.
And a smile. The warm, soft smile I’d been dying to see since I left him hours ago, missing him from the moment he kissed me goodbye until now.
“I could get used tothis,” I said, shrugging my coat off and tossing it on the hook by the door—better than last night.
Kieran’s smile turned into a broad grin as he set the book he was reading down.Mybook.
Book five.
Well, he was only halfway through it. He hadn’t gotten to thethingyet.
The thing that’d give me away.
“Good meeting?” Kieran asked, his eyes so bright and hopeful. He still thought it was about Alex and Eliot, but it hadn’t been.
It’d beenmuchbigger than that.
“Ohyeah,” I said, collapsing down beside him as he shifted to make room. “You’re not gonna believe what happened.”
“They agree to let Alex be with Eliot?” he asked, so hopeful I could’ve burst into tears.
He cared so much about my work, so earnestly. Few people I’d known ever had, and even fewer I’d… dated?
Were we dating? Or were we fake-dating and having sex on the side?
Did one night count ashaving sex? Kieranwassitting around in his underwear, but…
“Felix,” Kieran said softly, dragging me back to reality. “The meeting?”
“You’re not gonna believe this.”
“You said,” Kieran reminded me, so gentle, so affectionate as he took his glasses off and set them aside.
“So the bad news is that I have another meeting in the morning, I’m so sorry, you can go home without me and I’ll figure out a way to get back to Slow Falls by myself—”
“I’ll stay another day,” Kieran promised. “Tell me the good news! Are you always like this?”
I grinned at him. “Pretty much. Thegood news,” I paused for dramatic effect. “Is that the meeting is with a producer.”
Kieran blinked. “A producer as in…?”
“Movies,” I said. “They wanna make Alex’s books intomovies.”
Kieran’s eyes widened. “Seriously?” he asked, staring openly now.
