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Was it impossible?
When we made it to the drugstore, I was in a world of my own.
He tapped my leg, murmuring, “Come on, sweet girl. Let’s get you sorted.”
I smiled at the term of endearment as it made that hope in my chest blossom some more.
Sweet girl.
I wanted that. More of it. Wanted to behissweet girl for longer than a semi-permanent marriage.
Clambering off the bike, I winced as I straightened up.
His glance was apologetic. “If you want, I’ll ride back on my own and you can catch a flight.”
“No.”
His lips twitched. “No? Just like that?”
“No.”
There was no way…
Didn’t he sense that?
Or would he prefer for me—
His own smile appeared, but it was sheepish and so boyish that it made my heart melt. “I should make you get a flight because you’ll be sore as hell but…” He jerked a shoulder and tugged at my hand. “I’m kinda glad you don’t want to.”
We grinned at each other like a couple of lunatics, hope making me dizzy throughout that prolonged stare, then his phone rang.
His grin faded—I immediately missed that smile.
“I gotta take this. You go and get what you need, sweet girl,” he said absentmindedly, handing me a hundred bucks.
Accepting it, I nodded and took a step back, but as I walked toward the store, I heard him mutter, “Jesus. Already? You said I could have a week, Rex.”
I’d never met this Rex before, but I already didn’t like him and wasn’t looking forward to meeting him either.
Turning around, I watched his expression darken, and then he caught me watching him.
His grimace said it all.
The honeymoon was over.
21
MARYCAT
An hour later,after we returned from the drugstore, it was clear that the situation was more worrisome than Rex had first thought.
Barely a foot over the doorstep, Digger’s cell was ringing again.
Then, for Digger, at any rate, the unimaginable happened—Rex asked him to put his bike in the cargo hold of a plane.
It was the first time I’d seen my husband be anything other than cool and calm.
For a moment, he gaped at nothing.
