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Maci
Like a fool, I’m waiting for Hawk to come by my place. I have every intention on not letting him in and walking around the building again. I don’t want him to come in because then it will speed up my want for him.
“Mom, who’s that guy?” Riley asks leaning against the doorframe to the kitchen.
“Some guy I met at the restaurant.”
She rolls her eyes. “You’re already dating? We just got here!”
I’m aware of the move being hard on her. I know it must have been difficult to leave so quickly, but she doesn’t have to be this incredulous with me.
“Want to talk about the move?” I ask her and take a drink of my Diet Coke. That’s one thing I can’t live without and that’s Diet Coke. In law school, I would drink a twelve pack within a couple of days. The caffeine was just enough to keep me going. Now if I don’t drink it, I start to shake.
“No. I want to talk about when we can go back home.”
Just when I’m about to answer her, there’s a knock on the door. I smile at her in a comforting smile. At least I’m hoping it is. I don’t want to make her life harder than it already is.
“Just a second!” I call through the door and walk over to Riley. “Baby, I know the move was hard on you. I didn’t want to move, either. But we had to. You know that, right?”
She pushes me away to stomp towards her bedroom. She is lucky that Hawk is here or I would be banging down her door to get her to open it.
“I have my phone,” I call back to her.
I open the door to see the sexy specimen from earlier.
“You changed,” he mumbles.
I giggle a little. “Uh, it’s not every day I let some random man see me in my jammies the first day I meet him.”
Hawk leans in through the door and looks around. “Are you going to invite me in?”
Let him in to my apartment? Fuck no! There is no way I’m letting him in.
I shake my head. “Nah. I actually want to walk around the building if that’s cool with you.”
He winks at me. “Yeah, sure, Maci.”
I’m wondering if he is picking up on my comfort level with him. I’m nervous as hell about being this close to him.
In the back of my mind I’m thinking how big of a mistake this is. How he could be related to one of those punks who is trying to kill me. He could, I know he could!
I shake my head to clear it a little.
With my phone in my hand, I point out to the hallway.
We walk through the door and I grab my keys to lock the door. Once it is locked, I look at the door across from mine where Capone is walking through.
The woman that lives there smiles and waves at Hawk. He smiles back at her and winks.
What the fuck?
Why am I jealous over him knowing someone else? I am jealous, though. Very jealous.
“Friend of yours?” I ask.
He shrugs and opens the door for me to get out of the building. “Yeah, I guess.”
