“No,” she whispers, looking at my throat.
“Have you asked my family for anything?”
“No,” she repeats, and I give her a squeeze, bringing her gaze back up to meet mine.
“Then you’re not taking advantage. If it makes you feel better, we can say the car is on loan from me to you, and when you’re done with it, I can sell it off. But until then, please use it.”
“Have I told you that you’re annoying?” she asks then huffs when I smile.
“A few times.”
“You’re annoying. Bossy. And annoying.”
“You already said I’m annoying.” I grin.
“It needs repeating,” she mumbles under her breath.
“No more silent treatment,” I tell her on a squeeze, dipping my face closer to hers. “I don’t like it.”
“Well, I don’t like you buying me expensive phones or cars, so we’re even.”
“One more thing we need to talk about,” I warn.#p#分页标题#e#
“What?” She frowns.
“Last night, you brought up the name Mellissa,” I say, watching as her face loses color and she tries to pull away. “Stop,” I growl, pulling her back to me when she attempts to tug my arms from around her.
“You have a girlfriend. We shouldn’t,” she cries in distress.
“Ellie, listen to me,” I state firmly, and her body stills and her eyes go to my throat again. “I do not have a girlfriend, not yet anyways.” I gently nudge her, feeling her stiffen further. “And when I do have one, I guarantee you will be the first to know.”
“I have a headache.” She breathes out a puff off air that hits my chest.
“I’ll get you some aspirin and some food in a minute, but only after you tell me that you understand what I just said.”
“I understand,” she wheezes out as her nails dig into my arm.
“Good.” I give her a squeeze, dip my face, and brush my mouth across hers before rolling out of bed and heading to the bathroom.
Walking back into the room, I’m not surprised to see that Ellie is no longer in my bed. I’m sure she’s down the hall freaking out about what happened this morning. Instead of giving her time to think too much, I go to her door and knock twice. It only takes a moment for her to open the door, and when she does, her eyes meet mine then drop to my mouth before moving to my throat, when she mutters, “I think I’m just going to get back into bed.”
“You’re going to take these,” I say, handing her two Advil, “and then we’re going to have breakfast. After that, we’ll go pick up Hope from my parents, so get dressed. We’ll head out in fifteen.”
“I… We’re not going to eat here?” she asks, tugging at the bottom of my shirt.
“Best hangover food you’ll ever have is extra greasy and from a place called Jones’ on Main.”
“My diet—”
“Babe.” I shake my head, cutting her off before she can say more, while roaming my eyes over her. I have no idea where this diet shit is coming from, but no way in hell does she need to lose weight. She’s perfect. “You do not need to diet.” When my eyes travel up to her face, her cheeks have a pink hue that wasn’t there before and her eyes have gone soft in a way that makes it really fucking hard not to lean in and kiss her. Clearing my throat, I turn on my heels and growl over my shoulder, “Get dressed and meet me downstairs.” Before I do something like push you back to the bed and show you with my mouth how beautiful I think you are.
Hearing her mutter, “Annoying,” as her door closes, I smile and head to the kitchen, picking up her coat and shirt from the floor before sending a quick text to my mom, telling her we’ll be there to pick up Hope in an hour or so. Then I send a text to Sage, asking how his meeting went this morning with our client. My cousin hates being the one to give bad news, and the news he was delivering this morning was definitely that. The man’s wife was having an affair with her co-worker. Obviously, since he hired us to check into her, he had his suspicions, but thinking it may be happening and seeing proof are two completely different things.
Getting a response from my mom almost immediately makes me smile, because all it is, is a sad face. Sage’s response takes longer, but his message lets me know he had to talk the guy down from going over to his wife’s co-worker’s house and going postal after he saw the photo evidence. I can’t imagine what the guy is feeling. He and his wife have two kids, both under the age of five, at home, and he now has to think about what to do regarding his marriage.#p#分页标题#e#