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“Talk to you later,” he said and disconnected the call.
Knox wasn’t sure if he felt better or not, but the guilt was at least a little lessened that his brother might be dumpster diving for food because his meal plan at college wasn’t paid for.
He noticed it was lunchtime, which explained why he was so hungry. He’d get something light because he and Sage had plans that included dinner later and hopefully back to her place for the night since they didn’t see each other yesterday as she’d had plans with some coworkers.
It was nice she still had her life and friends. He wanted that for anyone he dated. He wasn’t someone who had to be around a significant other nonstop and didn’t want to come off that way.
But he would admit he did miss her.
14
WHAT I NEED
“Hi,” Sage said when she opened her door at four. “I can’t wait for tonight.”
“Me neither,” he said. They were catching a show at the casino. Going to dinner first, then the show and what they did after would be up to her, he’d told her.
“You look sexy,” she said with a big grin on her face.
He had dark jeans on and a light red button-down shirt. She wouldn’t call it pink, but it wasn’t deep dark red. It had faint silver stripes on it.
On his feet was a pair of brown leather sneaker-type shoes.
It was the most she’d seen him dressed up and it fit him.
He didn’t come across as a fashionable suit-and-tie person and she found she wasn’t into that.
She’d spent way too many years of her life dating men like that and look at how well that turned out.
“Sexy?” he asked, looking down at himself. “I’d think that was more a description of you.”
“Do you think?” she asked, doing a little spin for him with her arms in the air.
She had on brown dress pants that were straight to the floor, a little wide on the bottom so that only the tips of her burgundy pumps were showing. Her shirt was silky in appearance with a big bold blocky pattern of fall jewel-toned colors.
Her hair was pulled back on one side and held in place by one of Rose’s metal clips. In the past year, they’d added metal hair accessories to the line and she enjoyed wearing them more than the fabric ones from Poppy’s line.
Her shirt had cuffs at her wrist and allowed her to have two thicker bangle bracelets, each with a different flower on them to match some of the colors in her shirt.
“I do,” he said. “Let me see those shoes.”
She laughed and lifted her pant leg up to show the burgundy pointy toe pumps. “I need the height with these pants so they aren’t dragging on the ground. I figured we wouldn’t be on our feet that much.”
“No reason to be,” he said. “Why don’t we go get dinner? That will give us plenty of time to get to the show early and find our seats and get a drink.”
“Sounds like a great plan,” she said. She picked up her brown leather purse—one of Poppy’s that had a big poppy flower stamped into the strip of leather—then put the bag on her shoulder. She had her “pimp the product” going tonight.
Sage had never expected how much fun it would be to do this and everything she had at her disposal.
She hadn’t been around long enough to get a ton of free products like a lot of the other staff, but with her discount, she’d treated herself to one piece a month. Not to mention Violet had been sending her gifts from Blossoms for a few years too.
The bracelets were actually over a year old and some of her favorite pieces.
Knox held his hand out for her to lock her door. “Are you coming back here and maybe spending the night again?” she asked.
They hadn’t talked about it.
“I’d like that but didn’t want to assume.”
