She followed him to the door. “Stop calling it that. You’re making it sound like a—a checkbook overdraft.”
He spun around. “I want you so bad it hurts. I haven’t had a serious thing since my wife died, and I have a feeling we could—”
“We could!”
“I gotta go home and take another shower.” He turned around, opened the door, and left.
“We could,” she said to the closed door.
Bernadette shuffled back to the couch, dropped onto the cushions, twined her arms around her torso, and bent in half.
“I told you so.”
She didn’t bother looking up at him. “I was hoping you’d say that. It’s just what I need right now.”
“You’re going to get in trouble, missy. By becoming attached to each other—”
“We aren’t attached. We’re both lonely and in need of a good lay. Stop reading so much into it.” She got up from the couch, marched into the kitchen, and opened the refrigerator.
“I could go for a beer,” he said to her back.
She exhaled an exasperated surrender and reached inside for two bottles. “St. Pauli?”
“St. Pauli is great.”
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