“And then, when I have her right where I want her, I’ll make my move.”
“Who?” I asked.
“Dude, have you been listening at all?”
I hadn’t.
“Delilah. Dude, haven’t you been listening to a word I said?”
“Isn’t she with Remi?”
He snorted at that. “Remi couldn’t get her if he was the last man on earth.”
“I don’t know. That day she kissed me?—”
“Whoa,” he chuckled. “She kissed you?”
“Only to get a reaction out of Remi.”
“I think you must be mistaken because Delilah is most definitely into me. I took her home the other night, and she squeezed my hand before she got out of my truck.”
I glanced over at me, sure I had heard him wrong. “She squeezed your hand.”
“Yep, like this.” He took my hand and lightly squeezed it. “See? That definitely means something.”
“Um…I guess?”
“What, you don’t believe me? Cuz, trust me, there was more meaning to that single squeeze than if she had tongue-fucked me.”
“I think you might be reading too much into that.”
“Not at all. See, she was at the diner for dinner, and her car wouldn’t start, so I drove her home. She was in tears, and I was there, rescuing her from the situation she was in.”
“Why was she in tears?”
“Well, clearly, she was upset that her car wouldn’t start.”
That didn’t sound right at all. “She has a brother who’s perfectly capable of fixing her car. Doesn’t that seem like a bit of an overreaction?”
“In what way?”
“In the way that I don’t see her crying over a car,” I said slowly. “Wouldn’t it make more sense that she was crying over something else?”
“Like what?”
Frustrated, I shook my head. “I don’t know. I wasn’t there! I didn’t see what happened.”
“Well, I was there, and the only thing that was the least bit significant was that Remi walked into the diner with Caroline and?—”
“Caroline?”
“Yeah, Caroline Porter. She’s a nurse now,” he grinned. “Fucking sexy in scrubs.”
This guy was giving me a headache. Was there anyone he didn’t want to fuck?
“Anyway, she walked in with Remi, and then they were practically having sex in the booth. I’m surprised you didn’t hear about it. Everyone in town was talking about it.”
“Believe it or not, what everyone else in town does is not something I care about.”
