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“Oh, right. You said that earlier. I forgot.”
“So, that means I can take you shopping since I'm free for the rest of the day."
Holly blew her bangs out of her face. "Uh, no thanks."
"Do you automatically say no whenever I offer you something?" He raised an eyebrow.
"It's a Pavlovian response."
"Really? Because you didn't say no when I had my face buried between your legs yesterday."
"Eli!" she sputtered. "Keep your voice down! I don't want anyone to know about that."
"Fine. Then let me be your driver today. We'll go wherever you want. You need stuff, and I have a car. Besides, West's truck is in the shop, so Penn is taking their other car to work. And I'm not going to let you Uber around Vegas when I can take you. It’s impractical."
"You're not going to let me?" Holly asked, raising an eyebrow. "Oh, you're hilarious."
"And you're stubborn."
"Fine," she said, relenting. "But only if I can call you Jeeves while you do it."
"Sure. I won't answer, but I won't object, either. You might want to start making a list of what you need."
Holly grabbed a pencil and a notepad that Penn kept near the house phone. She bent over, wrote something down on the paper, then ripped it off and handed it to him.
"Everything," the note read.
He balled it up and tossed it at her. "Funny. I'm going to ask you something, and I want you to be honest with me. No bullshit, okay?"
Holly looked at him warily. "What? Why?"
"Will you promise to be honest?"
She crossed her arms over her chest. "Fine. I promise."
"Can you afford to go shopping? Do you have the money for it?"
Holly's gaze flickered, and she glanced away. "I have a little bit of room on my credit card."
"How much room?"
She blew her bangs up out of her face. "Five hundred dollars. Money's been tight lately. I sunk a lot of cash into my car. You can see how well that worked out, considering it's still sitting in the parking lot of the Palisades Hotel & Casino."
"Then let me help you."
"No."
"Five hundred dollars isn't enough money to get everything you need," he argued. "A computer alone is going to cost more than that."
"I can use one at the library."
"Holly..."
"No. I can't do it, okay? I can't."
He leaned back in his chair. "Look, I'm not bragging, but I could take you out and buy you twenty brand-new cars, and I wouldn't miss the money."
She rubbed her forehead. “This is a nightmare."
