“He’s going through some stuff. I invited him in for tea and conversation.”
She groaned and slapped a hand to her forehead. “Please tell me you didn’t sleep with him.”
“I did not!”
“Are you sure?” she asked.
“Uh, I think I would know if his penis was inside me,” I said dryly.
“Were you drinking?”
“I had wine with dinner,” I answered. “I was not drunk. We did not have sex.”
She groaned again. “I hear a but at the end of that. But you wanted to? But he tried? What happened?”
“Nothing. I swear nothing happened.”
“Again, I hear the but in there,” she said.
I gave up. This was why I could never be a criminal. I would definitely get caught and I would give up every sin I’d ever committed in my life if I was put into one of those interrogation rooms. “I didn’t think about sex, but I did kind of want to kiss him.”
She slowly shook her head. “Don’t do it. You do not want to fall back into that mess. He’s attractive and it’s pretty obvious you’re hot for him, but don’t do it.”
“I wasn’t going to sleep with him,” I said. “It’s just, well, it’s been a long time since I’ve felt that kind of chemistry. I don’t want him back. When I’m with him, we’re usually sniping at each other. It’s just weird. All those old feelings are there and I think about the way things used to be.”
“Remind yourself of the last day,” she said. “That should snap you back into the right state of mind. He’s bad news. You don’t know if he’s changed. Considering he’s begging you to be his date and he looks the way he does, something tells me everyone in his dating pond has figured out he’s a player. That’s why he came crawling back to you. He’s damaged goods.”
“I know, I know,” I said. “I won’t do anything. It was a moment of weakness. I think I’m over it.”
“Until he clenches that jaw and flashes those bedroom eyes at you,” she said.
“I’ll be good. If I feel like I’m weakening, I’ll call you.”
“Good. I don’t want him to do that to you again. I have a child to raise. I cannot be in jail. Although with the way things are going, maybe we can get a mother-son discount cell.”
I laughed at her dramatics and dug into my meal. I didn’t think it would be that easy to just turn off those feelings. They were there and they refused to be ignored. I would have to protect my heart from the man.