Page 41 of Rogue's Path

“Thank you, Jane.”

“Holler if you need anything else, Rogue.” Jane returns his smile and walks away.

“You seemed pretty oblivious to the world around you.”

Um yeah. Which is probably not the best idea in a new town. But there are enough people around that surely someone would have done something if I started screaming. “I get lost in my work sometimes.” Does he work? It’s the middle of the day on a Monday. Only unemployed people and remote workers have the flexibility to just stop for a break whenever they want. “Do you?”

His lips tip up as he slides his jacket off and sets it on the chair behind him. “Are you asking me if I have a job?”

Kinda. “I know you have a job. But guard duty doesn’t seem like the type of work you do all the time.”

“You’re right. It isn’t.” Rogue cracks open the glass bottle of water. “We rarely pick up jobs like that.” He grimaces.

“What? You didn’t have fun?” Any other woman would have probably blushed at that question.

“Parts of it were.” His eyes move to my lips.

“You know, I don’t normally walk up to strange men and kiss them.” I reach for my sandwich and take a bite.

“Could have fooled me.”

WHAT?!? “Then why did you kiss me?”

“Because a woman who’s not afraid of her own shadow interests me. You interest me.” He takes another sip of water.

“Not enough to ask my name.” And now I sound like a broken record.

“You’ll tell me when you’re ready.”

What? He’s waiting for me?

His phone dings. Rogue pulls it off of where it’s hooked to his belt and glances down. “Gotta go, Peaches.” He stands up and sets a hundred-dollar bill on the table. “See you soon.”

Is he going to kiss me?

Rogue rushes off.

Guess not. I shouldn’t miss being kissed that much.

Am I going to come back again to see him? Probably.

You came here to work, not to kiss him.

Get to it.

***

Where would she hide the body so no one notices it before she got out of town?

“Dylan.” Cordelia walks up to my table. “What are you doing here?”

“Writing. When you brought me here yesterday, I knew I wanted to come back and write.”

She sinks down into the seat Rogue was in half an hour ago.

Thankfully, Jane took all his plates away.

Except the cake. There was no way I was wasting something that delicious.