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The butterflies in le to keepout in my chair

If this was how o, maybe I really was lucky

Maybe I was the luckiest nurse in the whole darn world

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Ione drink with Jalaal I was on a girls’ weekend, after all Not toI could suppress San Diego Skyler before she started wondering if her son had gotten to sleep okay and if he missed her as ed to keep her at bay so long, and I felt a little guilty about it

Nobody—and IaboutIt wasn’t just because Jalaal was a sheikh, either The pope wouldn’t have been able to holdand sweet, but he had a real roguish sense of humor that led me to wonder whether he had a little bit of a dark side

And I hadn’t wondered that about anyone in a long tiht kind of blindsided me around the same time Jalaal asked me to stay for another drink It reeing

San Diego Skyler resurfaced and asked Las Vegas Skyler what the hell she was thinking Where did I think this was going to go? What, e going to have a few drinks and then decide to go steady? Did I think I’d be introducing him to Sam as his new daddy when I saw him next week?

No

I didn’t even knohere this guy lived, but it definitely wasn’t San Diego It ht not even have been the United States No bond we created tonight would be long-lasting Best-case scenario, I found out so horrible that immediately made me not interested in hiht and spent the next feeeks (or uy I would never see again

Not just any guy, uy since Sa of an attraction to And I hadn’t felt it this soon with Sam’s dad, either I hadn’t felt this attracted to Jackson until after we’d been on three dates

I’d known Jalaal for less than two hours and was already so invested that ement had been forced to take a backseat to ement would help me now

And thus, San Diego Skyler slid silently into the background and Jalaal and I ordered two more rounds of drinks