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“We have tonight, alright,” he said. “I want to watch a movie with you and stay up late and do everything we never got the chance to when we were teenagers.”
I smiled. I didn’t want to let this go because it wasn’t resolved yet. There was still too much he wasn’t saying. But I wouldn’t push it. He was right. I didn’t have much more time left in this town before I had to go back and if we spent it fighting, then it would just be hell for me.
I nodded. “Okay.”
At some point during the night, I fell asleep and Marshall must’ve carried me all the way to the bedroom, because when I woke up, I wasn’t in the mildly comfortable blanket, I was in his large, cozy bed. I woke to the sound of a light knocking on the door and rolled around to see it was almost five a.m.
The person didn’t wait for me to answer before pushing the door open and peeping their head in.
“You’re up,” Marshall said.
I nodded.
“I thought you were asleep, I just—” He shook his head. “Never mind.” He was about to leave when I stopped him.
“Wait,” I said.
“Hmm?”
I opened my mouth to say something but there wasn’t anything I really could voice. I tapped the bed beside me instead.
I could see the question in his eyes, the hesitation in his step. After our argument last night, I barely understood where we stood with each other either. But I knew one thing, I wanted him in my bed now—even if it was just to hug and hold him.
When he stepped further into the room, I got a good look at what he was wearing. Just boxer briefs, his tanned chest gloriously showing off his abs.
I had to pinch myself when I remembered I knew what it felt like to be beneath that body. But pretty soon, I’d have to leave him behind and go back to my studies. He lay on the bed and wrapped his arms around me, holding me close.
I hadn’t asked him to, I just asked him to keep me company, and yet he knew exactly what I needed without me having to say anything.
“I don’t want you to leave,” he whispered after a moment.
A silent tear slipped down the corner of my eye. “I don’t want to leave,” I replied.
And in the quiet of the early morning, the space between us said the unspoken words.
It wasn’t my choice whether I wanted to or not.
Chapter Six
Marshall
I canceled everything I had to do on the ranch for the next four days and spent every waking moment with Trisha. I couldn’t say it wasn’t worth it. She was my girl and I’d be damned if I let her go back to school confused whether I wanted her in my life or not.
“Two or three?” She asked me as she lay on my lap while we sat next to the pond that evening.
“Four? Five? I don’t know, Johnny keeps a better log of these things,” I replied.
She laughed. “You don’t know how many ponds there are onyourland?”
“That’s what I pay him for.” I rocked forward from leaning on my hands and reached into the picnic basket for another can of soda.
“You might want to get a little more hands-on when I’m gone, seeing as there’ll be more time.”
“I’ll have nothing better to do.”
She sat up and looked at me with a small smile on her face.
“What?”
