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“And you do? Worry, I mean?”
“Of course I do, never doubt that. Whatever this is between us, I hate not being home with you.”
Whateverthis is.
It always come back to living in limbo.
“If it helps, I won’t accept any more invitations out for a drink. I wouldn’t want you doing something stupid out of jealousy.”
“I can admit I was jealous.”
I almost lose my breath. He’s jealous at the thought of me with another guy. Why has it taken for him to be in prison to realise that?
“Leo, I miss you,” I admit.
“Yeah, I miss you too.”
I fall asleep long after we say goodnight, content moving forward with a slither of light in my heart.
Harper texts for Rayna and me to come over to her house and spend the afternoon with her and Gunner. JJ’s been busy with the club in Leo’s absence and Harper and I have grown closer.
“She loves him so much,” Harper coos as we watch Rayna sit by Gunner’s bouncy chair, talking to him. “I reckon she’d love a little brother or sister.”
“Whoa, where did that come from?” I ask, clutching my mug of coffee tighter.
“Oh, I don’t know, maybe because she loves her cousins and would make a great big sister.”
“You’ll have to talk to Leo about that.”
“And you don’t have anything to say about it?”
“Why would I?”
“Because there’s something going on between you and Leo.”
She doesn’t back down, and she knows what she thinks she knows is spot on.
“If you think I know, you’re wrong. Unless you’ve heard something I haven’t, then please, enlighten me.”
“Well,” she says with a wicked gleam in her eye. “Leo asked JJ to keep an eye on Shane and you.”
It doesn’t come as a surprise after he admitted he was jealous, but I am surprised he shared it with JJ. I tell her about the date fiasco, and I don’t expect her to laugh.
“It wasn’t funny. I felt so bad.”
“Wow, I didn’t think he’d ever get over India. Looks like I was wrong and I’m sure glad of it too.”
“No, he’s not over her. He’s just taking his time working through it all.”
Or at least that what I tell myself a hundred times a day.
“I also heard Leo got into a fight after a certain someone wouldn’t pick up his calls.”
“How do you hear these things?”
“Please, the brothers gossip more than the old ladies. So, how do you feel about it? I worry about you sometimes out at the cabin on your own.”
It all comes out—the attack, the nightmares, the nights Leo would hold me to hold them off, and then the last couple of weeks before his arrest. She already knew about the date, so I sit, watching her process the shitshow that is my life and wait.
