Off to the Races

The next morning, Billie is torn between pleasure at her encounter with Vaughn and panic over how this event will affect their future relationship. She feels embarrassed to have expressed her desire for him so openly. 

She checks on DD, who is recovering, and then mistakenly picks up Vaughn’s phone, believing it to be hers. When she sees a message from Vaughn’s mother, notifying him of a date he has with another woman next weekend, she feels foolish for believing Vaughn’s intense expressions of desire for her. She finds it impossible to believe that he was being honest if he already had another date waiting. While she does accept the truth of Vaughn’s claim that he goes on dates to humor his mother, she holds him responsible for not standing up to his mother. She vows to remain purely professional with Vaughn from this moment forward.

Vaughn awakes and kisses her, but she quickly pushes away, citing a meeting with Dr. Thorne. She offhandedly mentions that he has a message from his mother and then kicks herself for her immaturity.