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“I just have to hope that she won’t see it,” I admitted. “And I can’t be looking over my shoulder every second of every day,” I paused. “I have to think that I’ve done everything that I could to protect us—myself. If it happens…”
He caught me around my hip and pushed me to the side of one of the tents. It didn’t give like you would expect it to. It was pliable, yes, but it held my weight.
“If you finish that sentence with ‘it happens,’ I’m going to murder you,” he growled, getting into my face.
My gaze went to JP, where she’d stopped to talk to Keene, who was in his circus attire for the night, then went back to Kobe.
“Always mama bearing it, aren’t you?” he rasped. “What happens to her if you’re gone?”
I swallowed hard. “I hope that you take care of her.”
He snarled softly.
Then he was kissing me.
He was kissing me with a desperation that I thought only I had felt.
My hands went to his torso, and my fingernails dug in slightly to his muscular chest.
And I realized what it felt like to fly.
“Mama?” I heard JP call. “Where’d you go?”
The fear in her voice was enough of a slap in the face to get both of us to stop what we were doing.
He stepped back and called, “She’s over here, JP.”
JP, looking relieved to see me, ran toward us.
Just as she was halfway toward me, Kobe said, “It’s time.”
I knew it was.
I hated that it was.
He pulled out his keys, and JP, forgetting what she’d wanted me for, said, “Are you leaving?”
She sounded just as heartbroken as I was.
“I have to go home and shut everything down,” he said, curling a stray piece of hair around my ear. Then he turned to JP. “Where’s the circus’s next stop?”
JP grinned. “Gulf Shores, Alabama.”
“The beach.” Kobe nodded. “I’m seeing a theme in the next four or so. The one following that is in Daytona, right?”
“It is,” JP nodded. “Followed by Miami, then Stuart, Florida.”
Kobe tossed his keys up in the air and said, “Are y’all headed back to the bus?”
I shook my head. JP was allowed to do whatever she wanted on the last night of the circus. I still had the kissing booth, which happened to be with new dogs tonight, to do with her. As well as the fun house and the food to hit up.
We’d be at least another two hours if not more.
“No,” I admitted. “We still have to go all the way through. The last night I allow her to do all the stuff she wants to do since it’s usually slower. I can keep a better eye on her.”
He was already nodding his head. “I like that. So,” he looked at JP, “I’m heading out on my own then. Can y’all let me know that you made it back safely?”
He looked at his watch, and I realized that if he left right now, he wouldn’t be getting back until well after four in the morning.
