Page 93 of Drunk on Love

Seventeen

A WEEK LATER, LUKElay in Margot’s bed while she got dressed. He was usually up and gone before Margot, but his mom had ordered him to take the day off. He’d already taken full advantage of getting to stay in bed with Margot.

“You look very smug, all tucked in my bed like that,” she said.

He rested his hands behind his head.

“I feel very smug, now that you mention it. That was a very promising start to a workweek, don’t you think?”

She grinned at him.

“I do think.”

They smiled at each other for a while before she turned to her closet.

She pulled on that black wrap dress of hers, and he smiled.

“Ah, your Monday dress,” he said.

She stopped, midway through tying the knot at her waist, and stared at him.

“No one has ever noticed that I wear this dress every Monday,” she said.

“I notice everything about you,” he said.

She stared at him for a few more seconds, an uncertain smile on her lips, before she turned back to the mirror.

“I wish we could spend the whole day together,” he said. “I can’t believe I have the day off but you’ll be at work all day.”

She looked at him in the mirror.

“I wish we could, too,” she said.

He sat up in bed.

“Why can’t we? You’re the boss—can’t you take today off? We could stay in bed all day, or take a road trip. Go down to San Francisco, or to the beach or something.”

Her eyes lit up.

“The beach?” She sighed. “Wouldn’t that be nice?”

She picked up her mascara. She didn’t think he was serious.

“Well? What winery emergencies are going to come up that you can’t solve if you’re twenty or so miles away?” She just laughed. “No, really. When’s the last time you took a day off? Like, didn’t go into the winery at all, didn’t turn on your computer, didn’t take a bunch of calls, for a full day?”

She thought for a second.

“Well, the last day I didn’t go into the winery at all was the day before I met you.”

They grinned at each other.

“See, you’re trying to get me sidetracked here,” he said. “Weren’t you on a work trip then?”

She sighed again.

“Yes. Okay, fine, I was still working that day. I don’t know, maybe sometime in January?”

He got out of bed and went over to her.

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