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.

did he take her for? She pressed her lips

best innocent pout. "Can we continue with

she continued to eat. Would he get suspicious or freaked out? (Will he ask me to leave?) She was going to blow this. Great way to show your sister a

so then he spoke. "Nothing personal tonight," he raised his finger in the air "but what we divulge, we answer

hide the fact that she was in full out

if

with relief. That

it is," Dez

those values he was raised with, and that

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

great but...it also

curiosity down. Those are the rules." She placed her empty glass back on the table. When Dez attempted to refill it, she waved him off. "Light weight

the table and settled back into his seat. He glanced at her

known that the food was so good, I would have

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