Page 240 of His White Moonlight
“Mom…” I wormed my way out of her hold.“Can you please pretend you can’t smell what you’re smelling?”
She grinned at me.
“I don’t know why everyone thinks work romance is okay,” I grumbled.
She sighed and hugged me again.“Sending you away was a mistake on so many levels.If you’d stayed with us, you wouldn’t even think twice about office sex with your mate.”
The elevator doors opened on my tortured moan.
Walt stood there.Of course he did.
“Hey, Wrenly.Everything okay?”
“No.I’m going to need therapy.Mom, this is Walt, a sublet employee.Walt, this is my mom, Christine Wulf.”
His brows shot up briefly before he composed himself.
“A pleasure to meet you, Mrs.Wulf,” he said.
She shook hands with him, her smile polite.
“How do you two know each other?”she asked.
“My first day here, we bumped into each other at the sandwich shop down the way.He recommended the park to me.”
The elevators opened to the main floor.
“Have a good lunch, Walt,” I said as Mom and I headed for the garage elevator.
“So you met him on your first day?”she asked.
“Yep.And Bennett found me sitting next to him at the park.Like an uninformed idiot, I traded a week of lunches in Bennett’s office in exchange for him not telling you and Dad.”
She caught my hand and gave it a comforting squeeze.
“He didn’t do anything inappropriate, did he?”
“Walt?Heck no.He’s nice.”
“I meant Bennett when he found you.”
“No.Actually…” I thought about what I knew now and how he’d reacted then.“He was pretty restrained.He didn’t approach but waited until I saw him.”
She smiled and opened my door for me and even buckled me in like Bennett did.
“I can use my other hand, you know.”
“You could, but then we’d both miss this chance to baby you like I should have been doing all these years.”
“Are you going to cut up my lunch for me too?”I asked, amused and not minding her attention.
She laughed as she closed the door.
“So where are we going?”I asked when she got in behind the wheel.
“Clay and Leaf.It’s a tea room where people go to be seen, which is why I’m taking you there.”
She caught the face I made.
