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“Oh.” I slumped down in my seat. I’d hoped for something more than that.
He glanced my direction a few seconds later. “You should have more confidence, Nickels. It would take longer than we have this morning for me to tell you all the reasons.” He offered a hand across the console. “Have confidence in yourself.”
My insides warmed, but I still needed to address the office. “How are we going to handle this at work?”
He raised a cocky brow. “I’d be happy to handle you in my office. I was thinking the desk, or maybe a closet, if you like the dark better.”
“Stop being a goofball. This is serious. I think I want to keep it between us for now, as far as work goes.”
“Sure. It’s your call.”
A moment later, I felt self-conscious about assuming Serena was a girlfriend. “You didn’t tell me you had a sister.”
“Now whose fault is that? You’re the one who refused to go out to dinner with me.”
“I guess.” I squirmed in my seat. He was right.
“I have two: Serena here in LA and Kelly in DC. And three brothers.”
“See? That’s what I mean. We don’t know anything about each other.”
“I’ve seen you at work for a while now. I know nothing about your history, but I know a lot more than you think about the kind of person you are.”
I punched the temperature down a few degrees on my side of the car. Why did everything he said make me hot?
He changed lanes. “We’ve got a few minutes. Go ahead, ask me anything.”
I’d slept with and now agreed to date a man I knew almost nothing about, and suddenly I didn’t have any important questions. Looking over at him, I tallied up what I did know. He was smart, kind, protective, honest, and blunt, which was a refreshing change from the deceit I’d experienced with other guys. And I couldn’t forget decisive too. But I snorted a laugh when I realized I didn’t know if he could pass one of my mother’s old tests.
“What?” he asked, looking over briefly.
“Have you ever been in prison?”
“That’s the best you can come up with? I thought you’d want to know my sign or something. The answer is no, I haven’t been in prison. Have you?”
“No. Lara handles that part for both of us.”
“Nickels, there are probably a million things I haven’t told you yet. Let’s start to fix that over dinner tonight.”
“I’d like that.” It was a bit backwards to sleep with him andthengo out on our first dinner date, but a lot of things with Josh had been upside down.
“I’m looking forward to learning everything about you, Nickels.”
I smiled back at him. “Not much to learn.”
“I doubt that, and on the subject of Serena, you’ll get to meet her a week from Saturday. I think you’ll like her.”
A cringe crept over me. Meeting a guy’s sister always felt like a test. “Next week?” The bigger question in my mind waswould she like me?
“I’m going to Kelly’s place. I’d like you to come along.”
This had grown from meeting one sister to both of them at the same time.
I wrapped my arms around myself. “You want me to meet both your sisters?”
“No. Everybody. The whole family. It’s Kelly’s engagement party.” That wasn’t a number, and it sounded like the actual number might scare me.
“Including your parents?”
