“Really?” Her eyes went back to him, moving over him again as if looking for something in particular. “Did you put a spell on her or something?” she finally asked after a long moment of scrutinizing him and unable to find what she was looking for.
Kale turned toward me, his mostly green eyes full of amusement. There was also something more in their depths. I thought it might be pleasure, but I couldn’t begin to understand why.
“I think it might be the other way around,” he said in a voice that had gotten deliciously lower.
My heart flipped over as it skipped a beat while pleasure shot through me like an arrow. Holy shit, this guy was too much.
And I couldn’t get enough.
“Well, it’s nice to meet you, Kale.”
“Yeah, you, t
oo.”
Sage was already backing out of the room. I felt like some small miracle had been worked for me. She was leaving without asking him a hundred and one questions? Thank you, Jesus!
“I’m gonna veg out in my room and let you two get back to … whatever it is you were doing.”
Kale moved back to the couch while my eyes remained on my roommate.
She glanced from him to me, her eyes wide. Then she gave me a huge grin and a thumbs up. Maybe she thought this was just a hookup or something. Whatever the case, she was obviously giving me her approval.
I couldn’t hide my grin as Kale took his place beside me. Neither of us spoke until I heard Sage’s door close again.
“Thank God,” I whispered, more to myself than him, slouching down a little with my relief.
He chuckled. “I have this feeling we averted a crisis just now.”
I snorted. “I had this vision of her asking you a zillion personal questions then telling you way too much about me, and you running, screaming from the apartment. Oh, and then you telling Emmie what a freak I really am and her never giving me another job ever again.”
“That wasn’t likely to ever happen. Unless she said you collected the bones of your dead pets. That’s just disturbing, doll.”
I pressed my lips together, pretending to think about that for a minute. When his eyes got huge, I couldn’t hold back my laugh.
He put a hand to his chest. “I was seriously scared there for a second.”
I laughed harder, making sure not to snort-giggle. I wasn’t doing that shit again.
“Who would collect something that morbid? It’s kind of mental.”
He grimaced. “Let’s just say Sin has dated some freaks.”
“No!” I was still laughing. When he only shrugged, I shuddered. “Wow. That’s … yeah. Wow.”
He snatched up the remote again. “Let’s not talk about Sin’s castoffs. We’d be here until Christmas if we did that. So, Supernatural?”
I grinned. Sin or any of his other bandmates weren’t at the top of my list of conversation starters. I didn’t care about them. The only one I wanted to know more about was sitting right beside me. And, so far, I was really liking what I was finding out about him.
“I haven’t binged it in a while, so I’m game.”
SEVEN
Kale
I was being on my best behavior.
And it was fucking killing me.