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Really? Did I really just say that out loud?
But I can’t lie to my cousin.
“I do. Surprised the hell out of me.”
“That’s great, dude. That’s amazing.”
“You think?”
“Yeah, especially if she loves you back. Does she?”
“She says she does.”
“Brock Steel. Brock Steel and the most beautiful woman in Snow Creek.” He smiles. “Actually, second-most beautiful.”
Donny gets a dreamy look on his face. Man, is that guy in love. The thing is? Callie is beautiful. She’s almost as beautiful as Rory.
“So what do you plan to do about it?” Donny says.
“Well, I’m not you.”
“Meaning…”
“I’m not thirty-two. I’m twenty-four.”
“True enough.”
“This is new. New for both of us. And frankly, with all the other shit going on—”
“Hey,” Donny says, “don’t let our family bullshit stand in the way of your happiness. I’m not. Sure, Callie and I could wait. We could wait until all the Steel family crap comes to a head, but who knows when that will be? How long is it going to take us to uncover everything? I don’t know, and I don’t want to wait that long to be happy.”
“It’s not that,” I say.
“It’s not?”
“Well, it’s kind of that. But it’s also just… This isn’t me, Don.”
Donny chuckles. “Boy, do I know what you mean.”
“But it’s different,” I say again. “You’re so much older than I am.”
“Love comes when it comes, and if you want my advice, cuz, you need to embrace it.”
He’s not wrong.
“I have. How else would I have even accepted it?”
“She is amazing. Almost as amazing as her sister.” Donny grins.
Again, he’s not wrong. Except for thealmost as amazing as her sisterpart. I love Callie, but Rory?
Rory is everything.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
RORY
Callie and I are helping in the kitchen.
