Rowan noticed anyway.
Of course she did.
“You should answer that,” she said.
“No.”
“Important?”
“Always.”
That got her attention.
Properly.
She closed her laptop fully now.
Turned toward me slightly.
“So why don’t you?”
I let out a breath through my nose.
Because if I answered that honestly, this conversation would go somewhere I didn’t want it to go.
Instead I said, “Because I’m sitting here.”
Rowan didn’t respond right away.
Then, quietly:
“That sounds like a choice.”
Yeah.
It did.
That was the problem.
Her phone buzzed now.
She checked it.
Smirked faintly.
“Serena says you look like you’re about to start a fight in a café.”
I glanced around. “I’m not.”
“You are though,” she said.
“Not with you.”
That came out too fast.
Too honest.
Rowan noticed.
