“On it,” Horace replies with a small slap to his door. “Have a nice day now.”
He slowly pulls away, and Micah readjusts his focus back to me.
“I, uh…I really need to get to work.”
And I really can’t conjure up a good enough excuse to get out of this back and forth between us.
We can’t do it.
Period.
“So, I’ll pick you up on Friday night?”
His blue eyes already sparkle with victory, but I bunker down the best I can.
“I can’t,” I disclose evenly. “It’s too risky. However, I’m flattered and?—”
“I don’t want to flatter you, sweetheart. I want to date you.”
Lord, grant me the strength.
I steel my spine against his unyielding blue eyes because one of us has to be the rational one.
And it looks like that job is going to fall on me.
“It’s not possible.”
Micah lifts his shoulders, as if giving up that quickly, when he props his hip against my fender and stares at me some more. “I got all day.”
I frown. “What?”
“I egged Mr. Johnson’s house for a year straight without getting caught when I was eight. I hid Coach Turner’s whistlebefore every practice for an entire season, and he accused three assistants. I stole the wet paint sign from the courthouse and kept putting it back in different places for a year. No one ever painted anything. There was this one time?—”
“You’re a menace, Micah Wolfe.”
He smiles and heaves his shoulders again. “The list goes on. I have more.”
“I’m sure you do.”
“All that to say, sweetheart, I don’t get caught. And I know how we can get away with it.”
“There are rules?—”
“We’re not breaking the rules if we go into another city.”
“Are we having sex in another city, too?”
The question makes me blush because I’m assuming we would again, but Micah doesn’t stop to think about whether we would or wouldn’t.
“If that would make you feel better,” he claims. “I’d do anything to make you say yes, Sienna.”
Anything.
This man knows all the right things to say, and my brain is over here melting away logic that I had moments ago into nothing.
Magnolia Ridge was just for a job.
However, Micah is turning it into so much more.
