Page 60 of Anything To Be With You

I give him a knowing grin. "Liar. I have a teenage son who thinks I don’t know what he’s doing in the shower for forty-five minutes."

Luke starts laughing and my stomach sinks. It’s a rich sound that has me tingling all over. And I should not be tingling right now.

"I wasn’t pulling the pork in there." He states.

I start laughing. "Pulling the pork!" I lean over the side of the chair. "Archer!" I scream, tears running down my cheeks from laughing.

Straightening, I wipe under my eyes and take a few deep breathes to calm down. "Dear Christ. I haven’t heard that term used since highschool. That was good," I sigh with a giggle. "Pulling the pork."

Luke is standing in the bathroom doorway with this goofy look on his face.

"What?" I ask.

"Are you free for dinner tonight?"

I narrow my eyes. "Are you asking me on a date?"

"No, I’m asking you if you’d like to stay for dinner." He answers easily.

My brows creep up my forehead. "How is that different than a date?"

He grabs the back of the chair and pushes me over to the desk. "It just is."

He sits in his chair, and I spin to face him. His eyes are concentrating on what’s on his screen.

"Yes," I say after a few minutes.

Luke looks over. "Yes what?"

I roll my eyes. "Yes, I’m free for this non-dinner date."

He turns back to his computer. "Good."

Around eight, Luke starts supper. I wait until he’s busy in the kitchen before I swipe my phone off the desk and run into the bathroom. I pull up Erin’s number and hit the call button.

"Hel—"

"Archer asked me to stay for dinner!" I whisper yell.

"He asked you to dinner!" Erin squeals.

"Yeah, and he’s cooking."

Erin squeals again. "Tell me everything!"

I give Erin a rundown of the day, from what he’s wearing, to what I did with his thumb and his invite for dinner.

"I’m so excited! You going to let him in your pants?"

I groan. "Would you stop with that," I grin to myself. "And maybe."

Erin screams into the phone.

"What! What happened? Is my Doll okay?" Jake yells in the background.

"Dani’s fine. She’s going to fuck her boss!" Erin screams.

"I never said that, Erin!" I scream.

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