“I know you need to sleep, since you’ll be up tonight with Naomi, but I was thinking we could go to the beach.”
“The beach?” I parroted.
“Yeah. Naomi said that she’s been wanting to go down to the water and Bella loves the beach. It’s part of the reason I bought this house, for the private beach.”
He had a private beach? I wasn’t sure why that surprised me, but it did.
“Oh, um, I don’t know if...” I blinked at him, not sure what to say. The more time I spent with him, the more difficult it was going to be to keep my distance from him, which is exactly what I needed to do. “Don’t you have work?”
“I took the day off.”
Had he done that because we were coming to stay here? Of course, he had. We were inconveniencing him already, which only added to the guilt I’d seemed to be stockpiling since meeting Nick.
This was going to be a long summer.
