Chapter 16

DANNY CALLED ME MONDAY MORNING, SOUNDING DIFFIDENT EVEN for him. "Um...I was wondering...."

"What?" I snapped. My head was pounding, even though I'd taken a couple of ibuprofen about an hour earlier. I knew I'd been asking for trouble by ordering so many different drinks at the bar the night before; mixing alcohol was generally not a good idea. And I probably hadn't eaten enough to cushion the booze, either. In any case, Monday morning was turning out to be even less of a picnic than usual.

"I thought maybe we could have lunch on Wednesday," he said.

That sounded a little weird. We hardly ever went out to lunch, even on the days when he had appointments in my building. Then again, maybe he was just trying to do some damage control. I thought of Micaela's comments of the night before and grinned slightly. No doubt Danny would turn about fifteen shades of red if he knew she had been discussing his potential as a "fuck-buddy."