Chapter 137: Elephant in the Room
** Eli **
The look on Harper’s face was enough evidence that she knew exactly who the call was from.
Damn. Eli had hoped optimistically that they could avoid talking about the elephant in the room until this semi-vacation was over ... But nope, the bomb just had to drop at the worst time possible. He let out a groan and tossed his phone ungracefully onto the sofa. "Tyler said he already talked to you last night?"
"He did ... But I missed his call at first and apparently called him back while he was asleep, so all I know is he’ll be in town for an interview in a couple of weeks." Harper paused. "I did mention I’m in Hawaii right now."
"Yep, now he knows that makes two of us." Eli ran a hand down his face. "I told him it’s a work trip, though he sounded ... suspicious. When he comes to stay at my apartment in two weeks, I’m sure he’ll make it a mission to find out what kind of fishy ’work’ is going on between us."
Harper considered this seriously. "Well, I haven’t thought much about how to talk to him yet, about ... us. But shouldn’t it be a good thing that he’ll be staying with you? You’ll have plenty of time to explain everything to him, with all the details."
"..." Eli gawked at her. Did she have any idea what she was suggesting? "By explaining, you mean come clean about everything that happened in the past month?" He plopped himself into the sofa, equally unceremoniously as his phone. "I won’t need much time to do that at all. Because as soon as I start, he’s going to shut me up with a good punch to the gut. Or probably break my legs."
Starting with the middle leg, he thought darkly. Though he kept that part of the comment to himself.
Harper’s brow knitted at his speculation. "But why?" she asked. "I’ve actually wanted to ask you about this since weeks ago ... I can see how Tyler might not like the previous practice arrangements we made, but now that we’re just going to be dating like any regular couple, why do you still think he’ll make such a big deal out of it? It’s not like he’s some kind of unreasonable or dense-headed brute."