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Badly. Very badly. I can’t seem to be near the man without thinking about…things.
Thinking about sex, you mean.
Fine. I can’t be near him without wanting to have sex with him. Even though I know it can’t possibly be as good as I’m remembering.
Can it?
A few days after he first asked for her help, Dana was able to show him two preliminary plans, both also showing which doorways were to be widened and where the ramps were going to be placed. With such a time crunch she’d only had time to make up two designs, but he’d liked both and chosen one quickly. When Levi made up his mind, he didn’t mess around.
So, she’d survived both of the initial consultations with Levi without doing anything too stupid. Now, less than a week after Levi had approved the preliminary plan, she had the semi-final plan finished. She’d worked almost around the clock to make the 3-D representation of the remodel for the bedroom and bathroom and the doorway to the adjoining room that Levi thought Asher could use as his own den when he wanted privacy. The bedroom and bathroom, along with the doorways and ramps, were the most important things. She would have time to work on the plans for the kitchen while getting started on the initial procedures. This morning she’d met Harlan and Levi to show them the proposals and make sure both of them were good with them. But all this had brought her into closer contact with Levi than she’d been in a long time. She was very conscious of how even the most innocent touch could make her remember when they’d been together. A touch, a smile, even simply watching his profile as he studied the plans, made her remember. And want.
“Dana?” Harlan said.
Levi touched her arm and she about jumped out of her skin.
“What?”
“We were talking about flooring and you spaced out,” Levi said.
Great. Here she was, not an hour into the meeting and she was already “spacing out” as Levi put it with annoying accuracy. “I heard him,” she said, giving Harlan a conciliatory smile. Harlan looked as if he was struggling not to laugh. “I was thinking.”
Yeah, about Levi. And sex. Get your mind on the work, dumbass.
“We’ve agreed on tile for the bathroom, correct?” she said.
“Yes,” Harlan said.
“But we’d moved on to the flooring for Asher’s rooms,” Levi said. “Or at least, Harlan and I had,” he added provocatively.
“In my opinion,” she said, ignoring Levi’s comment, “your best choices for his room would be either hardwood flooring or laminate. Laminate is cheaper and easier to care for, and the kinds they have now are hard to tell apart from hardwood. But the rest of the house that you’ve redone has hardwood floors, so you might want to go with that. Although I’ll warn you right now, you’ll need to repair and refinish it because of wear and tear from the wheelchair.”
“Let’s go with hardwood. I’ll worry about refinishing it when it needs it.”
“Sorry, to break up the party,” Harlan said, “but I need to leave shortly.”
“No problem,” Levi said. “Dana and I can finish up. Now about the tile—”
“I’ll send you links and get samples once you make some choices.”
“Or you can look now,” Harlan said. “Don’t you have the links bookmarked?”
“Yes, of course.” She flushed, wishing herself elsewhere. Somewhere where her brain was functioning fully. “If you want to look now, of course we can.”
Please say no. Please, please—
“Now is good.”
Shit.
Harlan looked at his phone and got up. “I’ll leave you two to it. I’ll be here tomorrow with the demolition crew. The sooner the better, right?”
“Right,” Levi said. “See you tomorrow.”
“Bye, Harlan,” Dana said. She pulled up her favorite tile website, with some tiles she’d already marked that she thought might work for Asher’s bathroom. “What do you think about these?” She flipped her computer around so he could see.
“I like the large tiles for the shower wall and the bathroom floor. You think those smaller tiles are better for the shower floor?”
“Yes, I do. But there are several options. You seem to like the natural colors.”
