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“And then you’ll call me to tell me how it went?”
“Yeah, I’ll do that.” He withdrew his phone from his back pocket. “Give me your number.”
Lexi recited the phone number that started with the 346-area code. “Send me a text so I’ll have yours.”
Max sent the text. “You’ll get that when you log back onto Wi-Fi or leave Butler.” He gave her a madly vulnerable look. “Promise you won’t disappear on me again.”
“I promise. I’m sorry again I did that the first time.”
“It’s okay.” He hugged her again and then pulled back to kiss her. “Best weekend in a very long time.”
“For me, too.”
“I want more of this, as much as I can get as soon as I can get it.”
“I want that, too. Give me a little time to figure things out.”
“I can do that as long as you promise to come back soon.”
“I will.”
He held on tighter to her. “I don’t want to let you go. I’m so afraid I won’t see you again for another long time.”
“I won’t let that happen.”
“Can you promise me one more thing?”
“Depends on what it is.”
“If, God forbid, you get bad news at that appointment this week, I want to know. No matter what happens going forward, I want to know.”
“Okay.” Lexi looked up at him. “Thank you for an incredible weekend.”
Max kissed her again. “Thankyou.”
He grabbed his coat to walk her out and kissed her more intently as they stood next to her car. “Please come back.”
“I will. As soon as I can.”
“I’ll be here waiting for you.”
Lexi took another long look at his ridiculously handsome face before she got into her car and drove off, leaving a huge piece of her heart with him.
ChapterEleven
“Who so loves believes the impossible.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Max felt like total crap the minute Lexi’s taillights disappeared from view. He had the worst feeling that he’d made a huge mistake letting her leave again, but what choice did he have? They led separate lives in cities thousands of miles apart. Yes, she’d mentioned the possibility of coming back to Butler to live, but her life was in flux as she figured out her next steps now that her treatment was hopefully over for good.
And what if it wasn’t over? What if she went to the doctor on Wednesday and learned that it had come back? What then?
“Ugh,” he said out loud as he carried in Caden’s gifts and made a stack in the corner of the living room, next to the box Chloe had sent.
With Lexi in town and the party to contend with, it’d been easy to push the bomb Chloe had dropped into their lives into the background for a couple of days. But now that, too, had to be dealt with, and he dreaded broaching that subject with Caden.
His parents were right, though. Caden had a right to know she’d sent him something and was interested in seeing him.
