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“Oh, come on, Dave. You were one of the Rake-a-teers. Surely you know how to brush a woman off.”
He frowns. “Actually…I don’t.”
“Come on, you must’ve brushed off a million of them in your day.”
He chuckles at that one. “A million women? You must think I’m much more of a Lothario than I am.”
Then I giggle. “Lothario? Really?”
“Hey, it’s a word.”
“Yeah, if you live in the nineteenth century.”
He chuckles, but then his face gets serious again. “To be honest, Maddie, I’ve never used that phrase before with a woman. I was never serious enough about a woman to even have to make an excuse for brushing her off.”
I cock my head. I’m not sure whether to be flattered by his words or pissed off. I choose flattered.
“But it’s like we said before,” he continues. “I want to make sure that the feelings between us are real and not just the result of everything we’ve been through.”
I nod. “I agree with that.”
“So in a way, it’s good that you’re leaving. Going back to school. It will be more difficult for us to see each other, but we’ll be able to see whether what we’re feeling is real.”
“Sure. I get it.”
“Good.”
“So next weekend, then, I’d like to come to Grand Junction,” he says. “And take you on a real date. Not just dinner but dancing afterward. A big night out.”
“I’d like that.”
“Good, then.” He pulls out his phone and opens the calendar app. “Saturday night. A week from today. It’s a date.”
“Absolutely.”
“So what time do you need me to take you to school tomorrow?”
“Dad and I were planning to leave around two.”
He scrolls through his phone. “Yeah, I think I can make that work.”
“Is there a problem?”
“No. We have another big family meeting scheduled at Uncle Joe’s house. Ten in the morning. But I should be able to pick you up by two to take you.”
“You might want to bring your truck,” I say. “I’ve got a lot of stuff. I’m not sure it will all fit in the Jaguar.”
He smiles. “The truck it is.”
Then he rises finally, brings me to my feet, and pulls me to him for a kiss.
Chapter Twenty-Three
Dave
My cock has been hard since I picked Maddie up, but I was determined to go slowly, to make sure she knew I didn’t want to jump into something that neither of us is prepared to finish.
But I am still David Simpson.
