Спэнсер Коэн. Книга 1

“Actually, can I call you back in like ten minutes?” I asked. “I need my hands free for when Lola pulls up out the front of my place because she only slows down to thirty miles per hour and I have to commando-roll out of the car.”
She whacked my arm, and Andrew laughed in my ear. “Okay. Good luck,” he said. “And remember, keep your chin in and both arms up to protect your face. Avoid the kerb.”

“Andrew, that was incredible. What song was it?”
“Just something I wrote.”
I scoffed. “Are you kidding me? You wrote that?”
He nodded.
“Just something I wrote.” I mimicked his voice. “No, a grocery list is just something you write, that—that”—I waved my hand at his piano,—“was, my God, Andrew, that was so… incredible.”

He threw a dishtowel at me. “They’re hot, so be careful.”
I snorted out a laugh. “Is that how you ask someone to take food to the table?”

“It’s not that he won’t cook. It’s that he can’t cook. I’m pretty sure he could burn water.”
“I can hear you, you know?” he called out. “Now, come in here and help me.”
“Is he always so bossy?” I asked Sarah.
She rolled her eyes. “Always.”
“Yep. Still hearing you,” he said, and I grinned as I walked into the kitchen.

“No, that’s fine by me. It’s just that, well, no one has done that for me before.”
“How could they not have?” he asked. Apparently it was a rhetorical question because he didn’t give me time to answer. “I’d rather you didn’t drop dead of anaphylaxis on my living room floor, thanks.”

“Let me call you a cab.” I didn’t realise he was right behind me.
Startled, I pulled the door open. “Nah, it’s fine. I’ll bus it. It’s straight down the boulevard from here.”
“Are you sure?”
No. But if I had to wait even five minutes for a cab to arrive, we wouldn’t be needing the cab at all. I’d have him right there on the foyer floor. I swallowed hard. “Yep. I’m sure.”

Andrew narrowed his eyes at me. “It’s not crap.”
“Oh, is that what I said? I meant to say Jazz Piano: Funk and Fusion. Crap must have just slipped out.”
Grinning, Emilio told Andrew, “He gets away with saying shit like that because of his Australian accent.”

“I have to ask them not to eat anything that might be contaminated as well. Because if we need to make out and he’s just eaten lobster, me going into anaphylactic shock in front of his ex doesn’t look good.”