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“It’s yours,” he said. “I was going to give it to you the next time I saw you. I was literally finishing it when I got notified that you were here.”
I was at a loss for words.
“You… What?” I asked, still looking confused.
“It’s yours,” he repeated what I’d thought I heard. “I just finished it today.”
My heart melted.
If I wasn’t already gone for this man before all the stuff with my sister had gone down, I would’ve been totally gone for him now. Not only had he dropped everything to rush to me today after hearing what happened, but he’d also listened to me talk about my blanket for an hour that one single night. And then he’d learned how to make it and had made it.
Was I in an alternate universe? How had I found a man so perfect?
“Oh,” I swallowed. “How?”
Then, because I was losing my absolute shit, I pulled the blanket close to me, buried my face into the softest yarn I’d ever felt, and burst into tears.
My heart literally broke.
“I’m so sorry, baby,” he whispered. “If you don’t like it, we can pull it all apart, I had to do that…”
“No!” I wailed into the blanket. “I love it. Don’t ever, ever take it apart.”
I felt his big hand rest on the back of my neck for a few seconds before he moved it, then I felt the seatbelt being threaded around my hunched body.
Moments later we were leaving, the deep rumble of his Ford truck soothing in a way I never knew it could be.
I don’t know when or how I fell asleep, but I did.
In the middle of Dallas traffic, with the man at my side cursing under his breath the entire way.
CHAPTER 12
I don’t flirt. I talk. It’s not my fault that everything I say sounds like butter on a hot tortilla.
-Keene to Val
KEENE
“I can’t tonight,” I said into the phone.
Winston paused, having never heard me deny him when he asked.
“But…”
“I can’t tonight,” I repeated. “I’m sorry.”
“Is it the girl?” he asked.
I felt my heart melt. “Yeah. The girl.”
“I actually wasn’t calling to ask you to go anywhere,” he admitted. “I wanted to talk some shop with you, though. Are you busy tomorrow?”
I looked at the woman still asleep in my truck.
We’d been driving for hours, but I wanted to give her the peace she needed.
Though, at one point, I’d finally pulled over into a parking lot and let the truck idle.
