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Grady grinned at him. “We both had the same idea. I wanted to make sure she was okay, too.”
“Aren’t you supposed to make her okay by running the restaurant for her? Shouldn’t you get back in there?”
Grady cast a glance at her, and she nodded. She needed to have a word with Antonio—tell him to lay off—and Grady didn’t need to be here for that.
“Okay.” He pushed past Antonio, who didn’t move aside to let him back in.
“Don’t be an asshole, Antonio,” said Molly as soon as the door had closed behind Grady.
“An asshole? That’s not nice, Molly. I’m concerned about you.”
She laughed. “You’re concerned about Marcos, and neither of us knows if he’s ever coming back—or if he and I would have a chance if he did. I know you think you’re looking out for me, but there’s no need.”
“Why?”
“Because …” She shrugged. “Honestly?”
He nodded. “I find that’s usually best.”
“If I couldn’t make myself fall for someone else in all the years Marcos was married to Caterina, what makes you think I’d be able to now—now that I know he’s divorced and he might come back here one day?”
Antonio smiled and came to wrap her in a hug. “I didn’t know, Molly. I wanted to believe, but when you told me you don’t want to hear about him, I thought that maybe you didn’t want to know him anymore.”
“Part of me wishes I didn’t. I don’t know that we could ever move past the way things ended between us.”
Antonio nodded. “But maybe now there’s a chance for a new beginning?”
“Maybe. I don’t know, I swing back and forth. Maybe I’m crazy to wait and hope, maybe he’ll never come back—not to live here.”
“He will.”
He said it so adamantly that Molly raised an eyebrow at him.
He shrugged and tried to hide a smile. “You told me you didn’t want to hear about him and what he was doing.”
Her heart was racing. “Of course I want to know. I just don’t want to torment myself over it while not knowing if it’ll be a year or a month or ten years until we see each other again.”
“How would you feel about a week?”
Her heart slammed to a halt. She’d kept wondering about Cam and Piper’s wedding. She couldn’t imagine him not going, but no one had said anything—and she had refused to allow herself to ask.
“He’s going to the wedding?”
Antonio nodded. “Can I say more, or not?”
She blew out a sigh. She had to know. “Yes, go on, tell me whatever you think I need to know.”
“He’s already in Summer Lake; he’s been there a couple of weeks now.”
“He has? Why? I thought he was taking his time, traveling, being alone—away from the people he knows.”
“He did. He started out in Paris like he said. Then he spent some time in London with a friend from college, Josh. Josh has been investing in cryptocurrencies, and Marcos got into it. From what he says, he got in at just the right time, and he’s made a fortune.”
Molly frowned. “Cryptocurrencies? I thought that was more like gambling than investing. It doesn’t sound like Marcos.”
“That’s what I thought, too, but he’s convinced he knows what he’s doing. He studies the markets, and you know what he’s like, that analytical mind of his. He’s no risk-taker.”
Molly nodded. “He wasn’t. Either he’s changed an awful lot, or he’s so smart he’s figured it out.”
