CHAPTER 4
AFTER SPENDING AN entire evening staring at Joe, I was inspired enough to get up at half past five in the morning to use the gym. I thought I’d got away with it until Dane stumbled in at ten to six looking less than his usual dapper self. His T-shirt was rumpled, and a label hung out the back of his shorts.
“Early today,” he mumbled.
“You didn’t have to get up and join me.”
“Wouldn’t want my favourite girl to get lonely, now would I?”
“Sometimes I like being on my own. It gives me time to think.”
He swung a leg over the saddle of the bike next to me and cranked the pedals. “You spend every evening alone in your apartment.” When he reached out and patted my hand, I almost slapped his away. “A pretty girl like you should have a man in her life.”
I took a deep breath and went
