Maybe she wouldn’t show.Right.Highly doubtful since she was good friends with Cici.He’d just have to suck it up and try to act as if it didn’t bother him to see Letty.Hell, he was going to have to get used to it.He just hadn’t wanted to start quite this soon.Or honestly, ever.
Logan and Cici’s new house was a medium-sized cream brick home on Chance Avenue.It was close to the hospital for Logan and not far from the elementary school.Not that they had kids yet, but Riley suspected they soon would be announcing a pregnancy.
The first person he saw when he walked in was Letty.She was talking to someone he didn’t know—a man, naturally.The dude was good-looking, he supposed.Letty seemed to think so.She was all but hanging on his words.
She looked good.Great, actually.She wore a short, red skirt with a white sweater and black boots that went up to her knees.Classy and sexy.
He found Cici and Logan and, after telling them congratulations on the new house, he asked who the stranger was.
“I’ll be back, Logan,” Cici said.“I think we need more chips.”
Riley looked at Logan.“Well, who is he?”
“Ryan Hunter.He’s just moved here.He’s a buddy of Connor’s.They served together in Afghanistan.”
“Was he a medic too?”he asked, knowing Logan’s brother, who was a flight paramedic now, had been a combat medic in Afghanistan.
“No, he was a combat surgeon.He’s a trauma surgeon now.He’ll start work at the hospital sometime after New Year’s.”
Great.A veteran doctor.Probably a hero.And Letty seemed taken with him.Well, they weren’t together so there was nothing he could do about it.“Is he single?”
“Yes.”
They both looked at Letty and the surgeon.“Shit,” Riley muttered.
“That reminds me, what’s going on with you and Letty?”
“We broke up.”
“Obviously.Val told me.She’s upset about it.”
“Not her problem.I don’t want to talk about it.”
“Okay.I get it.”
“I need to get back to the ranch.Tell Cici goodbye for me.”So, he was a chicken.Sue him.
He’d nearly reached his truck when he heard Letty call him.“Riley, wait up.”
Shit.He’d nearly made it.He stopped and turned around to face her.“What do you want, Letty?”
“I want to talk to you.Can you come to my apartment?”
“We can talk here.”No way was he going to her apartment.Far too many memories.
“No, we can’t.Please, just come to my place.”
He looked at her, trying to figure out what she wanted.“Maybe you should ask the new doctor over.You two looked pretty cozy.”
“We weren’t.You sound like you’re jealous.”
Riley shrugged.
“Are you coming or not?”
“Fine.”Seeing her again was killing him but she was determined to get him to her apartment.So he’d go.And leave damn quickly.
