The bell over the shop door rang and she sighed with relief. She knew she had to call Carson, but she still hadn’t figured out what to say to him. True to his word, he’d stayed away yesterday, but she knew that today was his limit. If she didn’t call him, she expected to see him outside her door when she closed the store at six o’clock. She glanced at her watch. That gave her less than half an hour to figure out what to do. It wasn’t like her to be this indecisive. Running a small business and raising a child on her own, she’d had to be clear-thinking and deliberate. Carson, however, left her feeling shaken, emotionally and physically. She couldn’t even call her two best friends, Annabelle and Emma, to ask their opinions. What exactly would she say to them? I’ve had phone sex with Carson Granger and now I want to do even more things with him, and not just for research! Then she’d have to explain why she needed to research sex. They didn’t even know about her secret career.
