me about it.”
We stopped at the doors to the book signing, and I kissed her. “Thank you for the spectacular head.”
She grinned up at me. “You’re very welcome. I suppose we’d better get inside and rescue Jenna.”
Thirty
Sydney
I glanced over at Travis as we turned onto my street. My weekend with him was finally over, and I sighed at the thought.
He looked my way. “You okay?”
I mustered up a smile. “Yeah. Just not ready to go home and get back to work tomorrow.” Even though I got to do what I loved, it was still work.
“I was hoping you weren’t too tired from last night.”
I laughed. “No.”
We had gone to dinner after the book signing and gotten back to the hotel early. We’d had a few rounds of sex, but I thought we had gone to bed around ten thirty.
“I do wish we could have slept in a little more.” We had gotten up at seven that morning. “But it’s nice to get back to Minnesota at a decent time.” I was going to bed early and hopefully sleeping all night long.
Travis pulled into my driveway, and I was impressed that he’d remembered where I lived. As soon as he put his SUV in park, I jumped out.
“I just have to open my garage door, and then I’ll get all my stuff out.”
I used the garage code on the doorframe to open the big door. I spun around and started back to the SUV where I saw that Travis already had the back open.
“Hey, you don’t have to help me,” I told him.
“What kind of gentleman would I be if I sat and watched you bring in all your books and materials?”
“That’s a good point,” I said as I grabbed my suitcase and my banner while Travis carried my big cart full of books and other materials. “You can just set them in the garage.”
“Are you sure? I can bring them in the house.”
“I leave them out here until I’m done with book signings for the season. Then, I bring it all into my basement.”
We set our items down toward the back of the garage, and then we turned to each other. I didn’t know what we were supposed to do now. We weren’t in Chicago anymore, and the weekend was pretty much over, so I wasn’t sure if I should kiss him or shake his hand.
Travis took a step toward me when the door to my house opened.
“Hey, Syd. I thought I’d heard the garage open.”
Travis stepped back.
“Hey, Lexie,” I said to my niece. I was disappointed she’d interrupted us, but it could be for the best. No weird good-byes. “I didn’t know you were here.” I hadn’t seen her car.
“Rose dropped me off. Brendan’s picking me up later.”
“Hi, Lexie,” Travis said.
“Hey, Travis. How’s it going? How was Chicago?”
Travis looked at me. “Great. It was great.”
I cleared my throat and looked up at Lexie. “It was good.” I frowned. “How long have you been here?” I asked suspiciously in a tone that was only slightly joking.
Lexie rolled her eyes. “I’ve only been here for an hour or so. I knew you were coming back today. I didn’t throw a party.” She stuck her tongue out at me.
“Well, I’d better get going.” Travis said.
“Oh, yes.” He probably has plans tonight. “Thank you again for coming. I really did have a lot of fun.”
He smiled at me, and I knew what he was thinking when I’d said fun even though that hadn’t been my intention.
My thoughts turned to the blow job I’d given him. I was still amazed at my braveness to do that in a public place. And poor Jenna had looked lost when we returned. But she’d said I’d only missed a couple of readers. It had been completely worth it.
Travis moved closer and kissed my cheek and hugged me. I held on tight for a few seconds, breathing in his Travis scent and enjoying how good he felt one last time.
“See ya later, sexy,” he said in my ear.
“Bye, Travis.” I wish I had a good nickname to call him.
He released me and walked back to his vehicle. He waved good-bye from behind the wheel and pulled away.
I sighed wistfully.
“That bad, huh?”
I looked at Lexie. “What?”
She smiled. “Nothing.” She went back into the house.
I glanced down the street one more time, but Travis was gone.
It was getting late. Lexie’s boyfriend had picked her up a couple of hours ago, and I had talked to Harper on the phone for