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I turned to him and chirped, “You too.”
He got that adoring look on his face again.
I shut the door to his truck before I lost the fight with my control and crawled back into it…and onto him.
He continued to idle while I walked to the staff entrance, so I gave him a stupid wave at the door.
He jerked up his chin, a handsome smile on his face.
I ducked into the staff area at the back of SC that had a bench and our employee lockers.
I’d just stowed my bag, tied on my server’s apron, slipped my phone in the pocket and turned.
And that was when I let out a scream.
TEN
“SISTERS OF THE MOON”
(STEVIE NICKS [FLEETWOOD MAC])
Fanned out around me were Raye, Luna, Jessie, Shanti and Willow.
I was so into reliving Javi’s kiss and how sweet it was that he dropped me at work (deciding not to think about the part where he semi-kinda kidnapped me so I didn’t have my own car), I hadn’t heard them come up behind me.
“Did you have sex with Javi?” Luna demanded to know.
“If you did, was it good?” Willow asked.
“Shut up, it was obviously good,” Shanti put in, eyeing me closely. “She might have her feet on the ground but look at her. She has her head in the clouds.”
This made me pause to ponder, because if he could kiss me in his truck and put my head in the clouds (and it was), what would having sex with him do to me?
I was in the midst of another hoo-ha quiver when Raye inquired, “Are we good?”
I gave all my attention to Raye.
“We’re good,” I told her.
“I was out of line,” she copped to it. “I couldn’t sleep all night thinking about what a bitch I’d been.”
“Bombs are dropping, children are starving, women are bleeding out in hospital parking lots because they’ve been denied access to necessary healthcare. Those are things to lose sleep over,” I replied. “You wanting me to have something I want, at the same time looking out for a friend who you thought I’d wronged isn’t.”
Raye made a self-deprecating scrunchy face. “I told you to use your words when I could have picked mine more carefully.”
This was absolutely true.
“My guess, this is never going to happen again,” I remarked.
“Never, ever, ever,” she promised.
I smiled. “So we’re good.”
I was ready for a hug from Raye to cement the end of that episode, but Luna butted in.
“Are you gonna lay off about Knox now?” Luna demanded of her bestie.
Raye turned to her. “No.”