“What about her?” He tried to keep his voice even, like he wasn’t feeling totally attracted to the random graduate student who had interviewed his grandma. He needed to play this cool, but Grandmother wasn’t an idiot.
“I know you’re attracted to her, so just keep it in your parents.”
“Grandma!”
“Honey, I wasn’t born yesterday. I saw the way you looked at each other.”
Well, he might as well shoot his shot.
“Does that mean she’s single?”
Grandma laughed and shook her head.
“You’re so much like your daddy,” she said. “He used to ask the same sort of question. I don’t know if she’s single, but I do know she’s going to try to drive back to Denver.”
r /> “Not possible,” Brody said. “The highways are all closed.”
“Are they?” Grandma furrowed her brow. “That makes me worry even more.”
“She can’t stay with you,” he told his grandmother. She was a kind old woman and she’d do whatever it took to take care of the people around her. Brody knew that if he let her, Grandma would let the girl into her house and she’d take care of her for as long as Luna would let her.
“I don’t have the space,” Grandma said carefully. “But you do.”
She looked over at Brody and gave him big doe eyes.
“Grandma…”
“What? I’m just saying. You do have a spare bedroom.”
It was true. He’d built his home because he wanted to start a family someday and didn’t want to have to move right away. He didn’t want the hassle of having to build something when he had a darling wife and kids running around. He wanted everything now.
The problem was that he was too damn busy to actually have time to date. There were plenty of eligible women who lived in town and Brody wasn’t the kind of person who was unaware of his own appearance. He knew he was attractive. In fact, he took care to make sure that he exercised, worked out, and always looked his best. He knew women noticed him, and that was fine with him.
But Luna…
She was the kind of woman he wanted to notice him. She was smart and sweet, and his grandmother had been impressed with her. That spoke volumes.
“I don’t know if inviting a random woman to live at my house during lockdown is a good idea,” he said slowly.
“I’m not suggesting anything drastic,” his grandmother said. “I know she has a room at the hotel, but Brody, if the roads are closed down, I don’t know if she can afford to stay there for two weeks.”
He shook his head and looked over.
“Would you feel better if I stopped by to check on her?”
“Yes, please!”
She clapped her hands.
Grandmother actually clapped her damn hands like a little teenager, and that brought the dumbest grin to Brody’s face.
“You look like you just got amazing news,” he told her.
“I did. I got the best news of all.”
“It’s just checking up on a friend,” he said, warning her. This woman wasn’t someone he knew. Was he attracted to her? Absolutely. Would he bed her? In a heartbeat. But Brody didn’t fall in love quickly. At least, he never had before, and he wasn’t under the impression that anything could really happen between him and Luna.
Could it?