Chapter 10
After they finished eating, Tyler volunteered to do the dishes. Brooke took him up on his offer, but she dried and put everything away. She didn’t exactly want Layla to come home tomorrow and see two plates in the sink. The twenty questions that would follow would drive Brooke insane.
Though if something happened, Brooke wouldn’t mind. For a better part of her life, she purposely pushed people away, but the desire to kiss Tyler, feel his lips against hers, was overriding all her defense mechanisms.
“What comes after dinner?” Tyler asked, coming close enough she could smell his cologne but not close enough to feel his heat.
“I thought we could listen to some music.” She strolled over to the ancient radio they had in the same spot on a side table since Mom was alive and turned
