While the girls ate pizza the first night, Kit asked Cole to speak with her alone in the den. In clipped and terse words, Kit made it abundantly clear to Cole that if he made one more advance, he'd be forced to find another babysitter for Megan. "If you are using your daughter to get me into your bed, then you find yourself a new babysitter, now." Kit's words enraged Cole. He was deeply offended that anyone would question his concern for his daughter. Whatever desire Cole harbored for Kit's body was effectively doused, or so it seemed. Each evening, when Cole picked his daughter up at Kit's, he was rigidly polite and rarely stayed for more than five minutes at a time. By the end of the first week, Cole began calling Kit, informing her that he would be five minutes, then ten minutes late picking up his daughter. "I'm sorry, Pumpkin." Cole apologized when he walked through Kit's front door. Glancing at his watch, he knew he was twenty minutes late.
