Page 55 of Grounded
"I don't want a repeat of last time. Flashing you wasn't my best tipsy moment."
"I saw your breast, Amelia. Not the worst thing in the world."
"Ouch. Make me regret it more, why don't ya?"
"It was a compliment." His voice is low and deep, and fucking hell, Idoneed a drink. "A masked compliment."
"I'll take a can of the hard seltzer please."
"You got it."
He returns quickly, holding two cans and two beers in each hand.
"Two? Okay, that's my limit. No more."
"You're more fun when you drink." Theo hands over the two cans.
"I came out here to relax, not get picked on because drunk Amelia is cooler."
"Don't worry, I'll be nice."
"Really? Seems like we haven't been capable of that lately."
"Sorry, I'm under a lot of stress."
"I'm sorry, too. I should have known better."
"Yeah, you should have." He smiles.
"Hey, let's work on the snark. I'm trying to apologize."
"I'll give you your allotted sixty minutes. Can you handle that?"
"I can go longer than sixty minutes," I reveal.A sexual innuendo—great, Amelia. You're really killing it trying to avoid a sexually charged environment.
Theo grabs his phone and sets a timer. "We'll see about that."
"Are you serious?" I ask.
"Yep, I don't think you're capable of lasting sixty minutes without making a joke at my expense."
Theo takes a drink of his beer, and even the act of him holding the neck of the bottle is attractive. Why are the most mundane things so irresistible when Theo does it?
"What is it?"
"Nothing. Beckett liked that beer."
"Have you spoken to him lately?"
"He finally stopped checking up on me. Maybe he took my silence as a sign to leave me alone."
"Have you had your rebound yet?" How quickly Theo steers the topic into inappropriate territory.
"My rebound?"
"The meaningless sex to get over your ex."
"It would take a lot of sex to get over four years."
