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“Fine.”
“No, really.”
“Perfectly all right. I’m still keeping everyone’s secrets.”
He traced his thumb along the seam of my jeans, near my knee. Did he know he was doing it? “This is me you’re talking to. No secrets in here, and I’m worried about you.”
“Did you bring me a solution that doesn’t force you and Hunter out before he’s ready? That doesn’t hurt anyone we know?”
“I’m working on something, and those aren’t just words. But everything I’ve come up with so far is going to hurt Hunter.”
Aside from stepping out of the spotlight and letting us end things quietly. But that wasn’t Ramsey, and it never would be. I was okay with that, until the fakeness came into play.
His hands inched higher on my thighs. “Ravyn stopped by my office to tell me she knows this entire wedding thing is bullshit.”
“That sounds like her.” I let a tiny smile slip out.
“Kingston keeps asking if I’m all right with losing you.”
Odd. I barely knew Kingston, and really only through Lyn. He hadn’t lived here when Ramsey and I dated, so the first time I met him and Owen was when they tried to buy Lyn’s shop. “Why would he think you aren’t?”
“Because he’s heard me talk about you.” Ramsey made it sound like the most obvious answer in the world.
“Ramsey…” I was short on protests or the desire to use them, but I needed to.
“I know. It still doesn’t change anything.” His hands were on my hips now. “I had to see you today. I had to tell you…” He sighed and pressed his forehead to mine.
I couldn’t pull way, and I struggled to find my voice. “Tell me what?”
“Everything. So much more than I can put into words.”
Like the other night, when I’d told him we were done, I didn’t want to pull away. “I have to get back to work.” Such a simple phrase for something that was so hard to say.
Ramsey let go and stepped back. “Yeah. I’ll see you around.”
I sat on the freezer for who knows how long after he left. It didn’t help me collect my thoughts any. I finally hopped to the floor and tracked Lyn down in her office to finish our meeting.
“Close the door,” she said.
Odd request, but I did and settled into the seat across from her desk.
“Do you remember the remodel?’ Lyn flipped her pen between her fingers. She was staring at her computer.
“The one where you gutted half the store and expanded? Vaguely.”
“And that I had cameras installed almost everywhere except the kitchen, for insurance reasons.”
“Of cour— Oh.” Reality slammed into me. Including cameras in the storeroom.
Lyn frowned. “Yeah. Oh.”
She’d seen me cuddled with Ramsey. “It’s not… I mean… Hunter knows.” I was so bad at keeping these secrets.
“It’s not my place to tell you how to live.” Lyn’s expression softened. “To say what kind of relationships you should or shouldn’t have. As long as all of you are on the same page, I don’t have to worry about who I let down by either telling or keeping the secret.”
I didn’t know what to say, and I hated that.
“You’re not just an employee, you’re a friend,” Lyn said. “I want you to be all right.”
