shook her head. “By the front door, but seeing as you didn’t initially want to sit in it, you’ve grown pretty fond of it now.”
“I just love getting pushed around by you, Freckles.” Jake looked up from his phone. He laughed and nudged Amber with his shoulder.
Once Jake was settled in his chair, Amber started to push him back to the car while they chatted away about Jake’s plans for the décor.
“So, I was thinking,” he said as they got to the car. “How would you fancy helping me plan the decorating?”
“Me? Well, I don’t know.” Amber pulled open the car door. “I don’t know anything about interior design.”
“I know, but you’re stylish,” Jake said looking up at Amber. “Just from our conversation I can tell you have some good ideas.”
Amber thought for a few seconds. She’d made all the decisions when her mum had redecorated throughout the house, and everyone always said how lovely it was.
“Okay,” she answered with a firm nod of the head. “Yes, if you want the help that would be fun.”
“Excellent,” Jake replied. “We’ll have a chat over dinner.” Jake smiled broadly and made a mental note to cancel the interior designer that he’d employed the day before. Amber was right, it was going to be fun.
Chapter 7
By the time they had returned to Luke’s house the weather had taken a turn for the worse, so Amber and Jake found themselves stuck inside for the next few days. Amber hadn’t even taken Ernie for a walk because of the wind and rain, and instead she just let him have a run around the huge garden.
Both Amber and Jake were miserable, and Jake’s mood wasn’t improved when Tom called. His face had lit up for at least five minutes, but then, when Tom said he wouldn’t now be coming back from L.A. until the end of the summer, it fell dramatically.
“What am I going to do without you for the whole summer, Sugar Tits?” he groaned.
“I’m sure you’ll find someone to play with,” Tom replied.
“I’m guessing that’s why you’re not coming back.” Jake said, sulkily picking at a thread on his jeans. “ You’ve found someone to play with, haven’t you?”
Tom laughed softly. “I couldn’t possibly say. Anyway, the house isn’t ready and isn’t likely to be for a while. All the shit weather you’re having has slowed them down.”
“Tell me about it,” Jake sighed. “Okay, but I’ll miss you.”
When he ended the call, Amber looked up from the book she was reading and giggled.
“You’re like a pair of lovers. Are you sure that there’s nothing physical between you?” she asked.
Jake screwed his face up. “Ugh, no way. If I were gay, I think Skins would be my beau of choice. Luke’s too intense and Tom, well…no definitely not Tom.”
“Why?” Amber asked with a mischievous grin. “He’s very handsome and sexy.”
Jake’s eyes narrowed on her. “Seriously?”
Amber nodded. “Hmm, seriously.”
Jake shook his head, muttered to himself and shuffled out of the room as quickly as his crutches would allow. After just a few minutes he returned and flopped down on the sofa.
“You honestly think he’s sexy?” he asked Amber
“Yep,” she replied without looking up from her book. “Very.”
Jake huffed and reached for a magazine, not noticing the amused smile on Amber’s lips.
“Christ, I’m bored,” Jake moaned a few minutes later. He discarded his magazine and snatched Amber’s book away.
“Hey, I was reading that!” she cried, trying to snatch it back out of his hands. “Well you’re not now,” Jake said with a grin, holding the book just out of Amber’s reach with one hand and trying to fend her off with the other. “Think of something we can do together Freckles. I can think of something, but it would involve us being naked.”
A bored Jake was an extremely annoying and naughty Jake, and he’d been throwing innuendos about all