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“What if…” The only thing that would buy me time was Linda thinking I’d be getting married real soon. I never told her I didn’t have a boyfriend. I could buy myself some time. Tomorrow, I’d call the same rental properties I’d talked to earlier and accept the first opening.
“What if what, Lily?” Linda peered at me, a spark of hope in her eyes. She didn’t want to be the bad guy. Yet she would be. I could save us both with a little fib.
“What if I have someone?”
She lifted her chin, interest in her eyes. My hopes rose. Would this work, if only for a weekend? I didn’t know what the time would buy me, but I had to try.
“You have someone?” she asked, dubious.
“Yes.” I drew out the word. “I didn’t want to rush him. I mean, I never thought I’d fall in love again.” I spoke slowly, like I was reading about mammal reproduction for the first time.
“And you’re getting married?”
I nodded and forced myself to hold her gaze. I just needed the weekend. I could secure the animals, get myself and the kids settled in a motel, and put money down for a rental deposit. After I borrowed it from my parents.
Her eyes narrowed. The stench of my lie was rising up. Either that or my deodorant couldn’t stand up to new-mom stress. “What’s his name?”
What should I say?
The only name that popped into my head spilled out of my mouth. “Eliot.”
“Eliot who?”
“Eliot…Knight.” I should’ve made up a last name.
“At your service,” Eliot said from the doorway.
I gasped and spun around. Kellan was throwing his head around on Eliot’s shoulder. He let out a cry. Three seconds ago, he’d been as silent as the man holding him.
“Eliot.” All my dismay poured into that one word. My heart clawed into my throat. I could vomit everything I’d eaten for the last month. If I thought I was humiliated before, this was nothing.
“Oh.” Linda’s voice perked up. “This is him?”
Why didn’t I make up a name? Why did I name him? It was not wishful thinking. It wasn’t. I just didn’t know any other single men.
“Eliot Knight?” Linda prompted again.
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“Okay. So, you’re not going to puff up your chest and tell me to stay away from him? To be careful? Where’s the jealous, possessive act you’ve been throwing around recently? You’re far too calm.”
His smile stretches into a full-blown grin, and he sets his guitar on the floor.
“Does it bother you?”
“Yes.”
“Do you want me to be jealous and possessive?”
“No. But I want to know what to expect. I don’t like being caught off guard.”
“Fair.” He nods, pausing briefly before explaining. But when he does explain, it just makes me more confused. “That was before.”
“Before what?” I say with an irritated sigh.
He shrugs. “Before I figured shit out.”
“What shit?” I cock my head to the side. “Quit speaking in riddles. It’s annoying.”
Torren laughs, then braces his elbows on his knees, leaning forward. The move confirms what he said moments earlier. It’s really not that big of a bus…
“You’re mine, Firebird, and he knows it. I’m just waiting on you.”
I force a scoff to try and hide the way my pulse picks up pace. I look away in hopes that he doesn’t see the blush rushing to my cheeks.
“In your dreams, King.”
He nods. “Yep. Every single one of them.”
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