Page 61 of Callahan
“I will be fine. Adam is still recovering. The last place he should be sleeping is on an air mattress.”
The solution seemed easy to Brian.
“So let him sleep in your bed.”
Shawn had been Brian’s best friend since childhood. I wouldn’t think Brian would be on board with that.
I felt my eyes go wide at the same time Lainey’s hand flew to her chest and she demanded, “Excuse me?”
Brian shrugged. “He can sleep in your bed; you can sleep on the air mattress.”
“Ohhhh,” she and I said at the same time.
Yeah, that made more sense.
“What did you think I meant?”
“Well, to be honest, I’m not really sure. That’s why I was confused.”
Lainey was more direct. “I thought you were advocating we sleep together.”
The thought didn’t seem to scandalize Brian as much as I thought it would. His response was not at all what I was expecting.
“I mean, you’re both consenting, single adults. You do you. Or, I guess in this case, each other.”
Lainey gasped. “Brian Michael O’Shaughnessy! Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?”
“I do. And thanks to how much I work, she’s the only one I’ve been kissing.”
“Yeah, but the fortune cookie gods are on your side,” I said with a laugh.
“Okay, so it’s settled. Adam is staying here in Lainey’s bed—whether he’s alone or not is up to you guys.”
Lainey emphatically replied, “He will be alone.”
“I’m not sleeping in Lainey’s bed. She needs her rest; she doesn’t get enough as it is. The air mattress will be fine.”
Brian stood and walked toward the door.
“You guys work that out amongst yourselves. You need me to bring anything back with the air mattress?”
“Why don’t I go with you so I can grab some clothes for tomorrow and my toiletries?”
“Good idea,” Lainey chimed in as she and I also made our way to the now-open door that Brian was standing in.
He pointed a finger at her. “Don’t get any ideas about not letting us back inside. I’m not above kicking your door down.”
“I’m pretty sure that’s against the law.”
Brian grinned at her. “Welfare check. It’s justified.”
Chapter Twenty-Four
Lainey
Adam is going to sleep at my apartment again, after we’d kissed.
And then he brought things to a grinding halt.
