“What?” I asked.
“It’s great to see you smiling and happy around me. I thought I’d lost that.”
I sipped my iced tea. “Well, we’re still at the beginning of…whatever you want to call this. And you seduced me, might I remind you.”
“You let me,” he shot back. “It’s not like you’re a weakling. You could have pushed me away outside. Acted scandalous and clutched your pearls.”
I snorted. “Funny.” I chewed on some pasta. “Stay the night? Or do you have to get back?”
“I’d like to stay here, if you don’t mind. I have a change of clothes in my car.”
I rolled my eyes. “Of course, you do.”
He winked at me as if to say, “What did you expect?”
“I have houseguests, as usual, and Bryce is staying at the house right now until he gets a place of his own. He’s decided he likes it here and has agreed
