Page 29 of Spotlight
I grin back at her, waiting… waiting… waiting…
Her mouth falls open.There it is.
“I don’t believe you.” She won’t quite meet my eyes though.
“I could prove it to you, but I think that might get me kicked out of here.” I glance down quick at my crotch and back to her.
“Possibly arrested.” Her smile widens. That excitement and sparkle I remember from the night we spent together makes an appearance for the first time since then. There’s something intoxicating about being the one responsible for making her smile like that. Her carefree smiles are hard-earned, and it makes me that much more determined to get them out of her.
“Guess you’ll just have to come back to my place tonight then. What time are you off work?”
As quickly as her excitement appeared, it fades away. “Sorry. I’m busy.”
“What about tomorrow night?”
“I’m busy then too.”
“Sunday?”
“Busy,” we say at the same time. The busier she claims to be, the less I believe it.
“My ego is taking a real hit here, Liv.”
“Only my friends get to call me that.”
“Ouch.”
She grins, clearly loving baiting me as much as I love being baited by her.
“It’s okay. I like your name too much to shorten it anyway. O-liv-ia,” I say it slowly, enjoying every syllable.
“Don’t do that.Don't say my name all sexy.”
“So you think the way I talk is sexy?”
She groans and turns away from me. Yep, she’s definitely into me.
She gives me a smirk as she moves to the side to take another drink order. For the next half hour or so I sit and drink and watch her work. Between customers she lingers near me, so I take that as a cue to keep talking her up.
“How’s the bookstore rivalry?”
She lifts both brows and gives me another exasperated look.
“Okay, fine, we won’t talk work. What was your first car?”
Clearly amused by the random question, she huffs a short laugh before she answers, “I had an old red Toyota truck.”
“A truck? Really?”
“It was my grandfather’s. He sold it to me cheap.”
“And now?”
“Surprised you don’t already know, stalker.”
“I’m in the intel gathering phase.”
After another short laugh, she says, “Honda SUV.”
