"I'd say I was, maybe to give me a little bit of an interesting edge or something, but the truth is, I'm not that good at pretending." He finished off his coffee and set the mug down. "I'm really looking forward to the weekend now. Nice change from wondering what I was going to do with myself."

He wasn't going to think about the mild flip he'd felt in his stomach when Eli'd said he liked him. Probably just the stress of the new mother calls he'd been ducking all day.