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"Good luck," my cousin said, chuckling.
I wasn't sure if I was going to need luck or restraint to make it through a week with Drea as my roommate. Either way, I was going to make sure that she liked me by the end of our time together.
CHAPTER7
DREA
CATS TAKE ON NEW MEANING
Well, the visit to Nattie's solved absolutely nothing. And now I had a tall, muscly, arrogant roommate I didn't want for the foreseeable future. And all the way back to "our" house, he was giving me a weird smile.
"What?" I asked him as he guided his dumb shiny car down the winding two-lane road.
"I haven't had a roommate since college," he said, sounding weirdly gleeful.
"We are not roommates. You'll be on the couch. And you'd better not eat any more of my yogurts."
"We can get some tape and put a line down the middle of the fridge if you want. And set up a bathroom and television schedule." He said this as if he was serious, but I wasn't going to get my happy little organizationally obsessed hopes up. He was kidding.
I sniffed and looked out the window in response.
The real issue here? Besides the complete invasion of my space and my life, it was that Rock was so stupidly attractive that I found myself wishing things were different. Why couldn't he have stayed somewhere else and then we could have bumped into each other at Straddlers or he could have wandered into the Muffin Tin?
Of course then, with my track record with stupidly attractive men, he'd never notice me at all.
Not that he'd exactly noticed me now.
Ugh. This was the problem. My brain was doing all kind of calculating and twisty-turny thinking trying to convince me that maybe if I was nice to him, Rock would look at me as something more than an inconvenience to his pickleball plans. Maybe he'd look at me like...
Like he was doing right now.
"What?" I practically shrieked.
"Just wondering if you were planning to get out of the car," he said, chuckling.
We were home. And I'd been so absorbed in delirious confusion that I hadn't even noticed.
"Of course I am," I said, my voice haughty even though I didn't want it to be. This man did things to me. Dammit.
We both stared over toward Mr. Mulligan's side of the duplex as we headed inside. My neighbor had shifted dramatically in my thoughts since last night. Now I was a teeny bit afraid, and it almost made me glad that Rock was here.
"You don't really think..."
"No way," Rock said. "Might have some odd proclivities, but we all know vampires aren't real. And if he is one, he must be into cat blood."
"That's why all the cats, you think?"
"Why else?"
I shook my head. My life had gotten really weird all of a sudden.
"What are you up to today, roomie?" Rock asked, sitting his enormous self on my couch and blinking up at me.
"Um. I have a shift this afternoon." I stood awkwardly in the center of the room, feeling like a visitor in my own home.
"So lunch then? And I can drop you off at work."
I felt myself frowning at him. "Why? Just because you're stuck here for a few days doesn't mean we have to be friends."
