Page 82 of So Right
“You working tomorrow?” Cam asked.
“I don’t know. Maybe.”
“Dude, you deserve a day off. Hell, you deserve a vacation.”
And he’d take one in January or February like he usually did. The question was whether he’d go alone. He recalled the conversation he’d had with Kelsey weeks ago, when he’d sort of invited her to go away with him. What had once seemed a distant possibility was now something he wanted desperately. She’d never been off the West Coast. He began to think of all the places he could take her and wondered if she even had a passport. Would she be able to take time off from the library? Hell, maybe she could just close it for a week. People could go without borrowing books and movies for a week, couldn’t they?
He looked over at Kelsey. Going without her wasn’t an option. Apparently, the loner didn’t want to be alone anymore. He wanted to be with her. Even tomorrow loomed large and boring since she’d be at the library all afternoon.
What the hell had happened to him? He normally had no problem facing a day by himself. In fact, he relished it.
He shook the thoughts away and dragged himself back to what Cam had said. “You know me, I’m a workaholic.”
“Always have been, even in school. You and Jamie were pulling straight As and my not-too-shabby three-point-seven-five looked like crap.”
Kelsey looked over at Cam as she picked up her pint of cider. “That’s nothing to sneeze at.”
“Said the girl who graduated a year early,” Luke said.
Brooke leaned forward. “Is that true?”
Kelsey swallowed her cider and set the glass back on the table. “Yes.” She sent Luke a teasing smile. “Thanks for outing me.”
He blinked and teased her back. “Is it a secret?”
“Maybe. Now you have to share a secret.”
“Oh, man. I don’t know.” He tried to think of something she wouldn’t know. They’d shared so much over the past couple of weeks.
Cam snorted. “This is easy. One of the many things this overachiever did in high school was work on the newspaper. He wrote a regular sports column, but what people didn’t know was that he was also the advice columnist, Dear Granny.”
Oh hell.Luke hadn’t thought of that in years.
Kelsey let go of his hand and turned toward him in the booth. Her eyes sparkled with mirth. “Seriously? I’m trying to imagine.” She looked over at Cam. “Any chance your folks have a newspaper or two lying around?”
Cam laughed. “I’m sure. Just ask my mom next time you see her. She’d be delighted to share all sorts of things.”
“It’s true,” Brooke said. “She’s shown me every embarrassing picture of Cam, including him running around naked at age four with his underwear on his head.”
Cam dropped his head and shook it before shooting her a wide grin. “You had to mention that.”
Brooke shrugged. “Seems only fair since you spilled your brother’s secret.”
“That means I should spill one for you. Let’s see—”
Brooke put her fingers in front of his mouth. “I have no idea what you were going to say, but shut up.” She turned to Kelsey and Luke. “I had to go to my prom with green hair. Donotcolor your hair at home for the first time on prom day.”
“Yikes!” Kelsey covered her mouth and giggled.
Brooke grinned. “But really, I want to hear more about Dear Granny. What sort of questions did you get?”
Luke opened his mouth to respond, but someone approached the table—a guy with dark hair and an extremely nervous look in his eye.
“Kelsey?”
She turned her head, but not before Luke caught the spark of fear in her gaze. “Noah. What are you doing here?”
Adrenaline pumped through Luke. It took everything he had not to jump up from the bench and launch himself over the table at her ex. “This is Noah?”
