Anya had been excited about having a day to explore and Katrina had seemed happy to have the freedom of his Camry, even if she was a little nervous about driving in a strange city. He hadn’t been worried. He knew Katrina would be fine.
When he heard the garage door open, he went to greet them.
They were carrying packages. A lot of packages.
“Let me take those,” he said, grabbing the bags from both Katrina and Anya. He set them on the counter. “Did a little shopping today, huh?”
“Yes,” Anya said. “We found a great mall. And you’ll be happy to know Kat didn’t hit anything with your car.”
Grant laughed. “I wasn’t worried about it at all.”
“I was,” Katrina said, laying her purse on the counter next to the bags. “I don’t have an opportunity to drive all that often. I was a little rusty.”
“Well, now you’ve had practice.”
“Maybe you could teach me to drive, Grant,” Anya said. “It’s a major crime that I’m seventeen and don’t have a license yet.”
“You live in New York and don’t need to drive,” Katrina said.
“You live in New York, too,” Anya shot back. “Yet you have a driver’s license.”
Katrina shrugged. “I figured at some point I might need to drive a car, so I took driving lessons a long time ago and got my license.”
Anya looked to Grant. “See? Which means at some point I might need to know how to drive.”
Katrina sighed.
Grant laughed. “She has a point.”
Katrina slid Grant a look, then directed her attention to Anya. “Fine. We’ll see about taking care of that this year.”
Anya grinned. “Awesome.”
“So what did you all buy?”
“Kat and I both got new capris. I love mine and I’m definitely wearing them to the game tonight. Kat bought pillows for your sofa. I helped pick them out. We argued for a good twenty minutes over which ones. She won, but only because she has the credit card.”
He looked over at Katrina. “You bought pillows for my sofa?”
“Yes.” Katrina went to the counter and pulled two pillows from the bag. “I thought you needed something extra on your sofas. They’ll add a nice design element and be extra comfortable.”
He didn’t know much about decorating, but the pillows were a tan with black and looked nice on his couches. What he really liked was that she’d thought about him.
“They look great. Thank you.” He put his arms around her as she surveyed the sofas. “It was so thoughtful of you.”
She shrugged. “It’s not a big deal.”
“It is to me.”
“Before you two make out or something, I’m going upstairs to change,” Anya said, scrunching her face up and grabbing her bags.
Grant grinned as she left the room. But she winked at him as she walked by.
He got the idea Anya approved of him.
For some reason, that meant something to him.
He turned Katrina around in his arms and brushed his lips over hers. She melted against him, so he deepened the kiss, intending to take just a quick taste. But she felt good, her body warm and pliant. He was getting hard, and he didn’t know when the kids would be back downstairs, so he pulled back.
“Did you have fun today?”
“We did. I only had to do a quick reshoot, so we were out of there within a couple of hours, which left us the entire day to go sightseeing and shopping.”
“Did you visit the Arch?”
She shook her head. “We were going to, but we ran out of time.”
He nodded. “Maybe we can fit it in tomorrow. I could take you.”
“Don’t you have practice?”
She palmed his chest, her nails digging in just a little. It made his blood rush. He wondered if there was time to sneak upstairs to his bedroom. The idea of a quickie appealed.
“I’ll have time to take you all to the Arch tomorrow.”
He was just about to tug on her hand, to lead her upstairs, when Leo came down.
“Oh, hi, Leo,” Katrina said. “How was your day with Grant and the team?”
Time was up. He left Katrina and Leo to talk. He ran upstairs and changed clothes. When Katrina came up and closed the door behind her, he turned to face her.
“Everyone ready to go?”
She nodded. “It’ll only take me a few minutes to get ready.”
“Don’t worry about it. We have plenty of time.”
He was going to head downstairs, but then Katrina asked him to help her unzip her sundress.