“You’ll never know, because my mom ruined the moment.”
I snatched my hand back. “You are so full of it.”
Maybe I should have gone to the restroom too. I felt overwhelmed all of a sudden.
Happy. Overwhelmed because I was happy.
He loves me.
He leaned forward and thrust his hand in my hair and his tongue in my mouth and kissed me, as deeply as was probably legal in public. It felt familiar and hot and wildly special with what he had just blurted out.
We were never getting a waiter over to this table until his mom came back to chaperone.
When he had thoroughly proved yet again how much I was putty in his hands on the sexual thing, he said, “And we can discuss this later tonight or next month or not at all. But I’m not going anywhere. I love you and I know—”
“Do not say it!” I warned, meaning it, too. If he just presumed I loved him too and said it—although, God of course I did—I was stomping right out of here. Talk about high-handed.
“I wasn’t going to say you love me. No way!” He leaned back. “I’m going to make you say it.”
I grinned at him this time. And I was sure he could do it, too. But not now. I had that much pride left in me at least, didn’t I?
“And as for my mother, it’d serve her right if I made her fly home commercial, right now, tonight.”
“It’s not her fault. I kind of like her. I mean, that she’s so blunt about everything,” I said, making him laugh.
“Uh-oh. I was hoping for a wedge between you two. If you start allying with each other…I don’t even want to think about it.”
I stood up. “I’ll go get her and tell her it’s safe to come back to the table. I’ll look in the bathroom first and if she’s not there, I’ll wander around outside the restaurant till I find her.”
“Check under the table. She’s probably hiding there,” he joked. “And be sure to tell her I’m really mad at her. I may even stick her with the check.”
“I’d like to see you do that to my mother sometime. I don’t think a man ever has, in her whole life.”
He took both my hands and brought them to his lips. “And you’re completely different.”
The L-word was hovering awfully close to my lips. But I just leaned down and kissed him.
Let him earn it.
Maybe tonight.
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