POV: ELI
He pulled up outside her building at nearly nine in the morning. She had a shift starting in under an hour and she looked like someone had stolen forty-eight hours of sleep from her and left a reasonable facsimile in its place.
She stared out the passenger window.
"So," she said. "We're dating."
Eli kept his eyes on the windshield. He had been hoping, with increasing desperation over the last four hours, that the word had sailed past her in the chaos of Jimmy's announcement.
It had not.
"Why?" he said. "What did you think we were doing? Exchanging omelette recipes?"
She sighed at the window. Long and theatrical. "I always assumed dating a millionaire would have more perks."
He turned to look at her. She turned at the same moment and he saw the mischief before she got her e
