24

Class was canceled so Frank doesn’t need to drive me. I’ll grab the bus in a while. Just enjoying your sun for a bit longer.

She attached a picture she had taken, curled up in my favorite chair. I squinted at the screen. She was wearing one of my shirts, and unless I was mistaken, she was holding the mug I used this morning.

I stood, already dialing as I strode into my office, almost slamming the door in my haste. I cut off the loud guffaws that followed me.

Emmy’s voice was slow and lazy when she answered. “Hey.”

“Hey yourself.”

“This room is amazing.”

“Stay.”

“What?”

“Don’t go home. Stay and be there when I’m done for the day.”

“Bentley, I have to do some school work. I need to go home and get my laptop, so I’m not going all the way there and coming back. And before you can say it, I’m not having Frank take me either.”

I grinned for two reasons. Her stubbornness, and the way she might have helped me find the excuse for her to start using the laptop I had purchased.

“Do you have your