A Taste of Spring

Chapter 8

SPRING

"I was wondering," Spring said after eating in silence for most of the meal. It was different-the silence-but it wasn't an uncomfortable silence where she felt the need to fill it. When Dez nodded she continued, "Do you step up, playing the boyfriend for damsels in sticky situations often?"

"Not habitually, no." He tilted his head as if thinking. A smile stretched out his full lips, allowing his sparkling teeth and sexy dimples to make an appearance. "I wouldn't look the other way if a woman was being attacked, but usually I try to mind my own business."

"But you didn't tonight." Spring was curious to know why.

He seemed to think about it before he answered. "I suppose there was something about you that made me want to be your...man."

While Spring frowned at the answer, Dez lifted his glass to his lips and drank.

"Do you have one?"

"Have what?"

"A man in your life?" Dez held her gaze, waiting for an answer.

would I go to a stranger's loft, at night, and alone if I had a man? What did he take her for? She pressed her lips together and was about to ask exactly that but held her tongue. His question was

pout. "Can we continue with the

ask me to leave?) She was going to blow this. Great way to show your sister a bit

a minute or so then he spoke. "Nothing personal tonight," he raised his finger in the air "but

agreed but tried to hide the fact that she was in full out panic mode, wondering what he needed to know.

you seeing someone and if you are,

no one, that's important to you," Spring said with relief. That could have gone a number of

it is," Dez said

was raised with, and that wasn't necessarily a

Admitting that truth didn't feel so bad or personal, so Spring went a step further. "I haven't been in a relationship for

but...it also

"Shut that curiosity down. Those are the rules."

He placed the wine bottle back in the center of the table and settled back into his seat. He glanced at her nearly empty plate. "How was

had known that the food was so

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