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Sawyer nodded.
“Well, this week she’s ticking something else off that list you guys wrote up for her,” Dan said.
“You’re not serious? That was for things like, drink tequila, and riding on the back of a motorcycle. Not break the law.”
Dan shrugged. “Right there in front of Uncle Asher, Birdie just walked away when the Grapevine Twist started. While on one hand I was shocked, the other I was proud.”
“She’s in a jail cell!” Sawyer roared. “Nothing to be proud of.”
“You, more than anyone, know the rules.” His uncle appeared. “Can’t change them just for your girl, Sawyer.”
The look he turned on his uncle should turn him to ash. Instead, the sheriff just smiled calmly.
“I want to see her.” His throat felt tight, and his head all over the place. Sawyer knew Birdie was okay. His brother and uncle would make sure of that. But the thought of her in a jail cell made him see red.
“Take your brother to see his girl, Dan,” Uncle Asher said. “And you behave.” The sheriff of Lyntacky jabbed a finger his way. “She knew what she was doing, just like you did when I arrested you for the same thing.”
“I don’t want her in a jail cell,” Sawyer growled.
Birdie was his life, okay his family was in there too, but she was the reason he felt light inside. The reason he smiled more than he used to. He loved her… too much. But when he’d told her that, she’d said it was okay, because she loved him too much too. So they were in this madness together.
“Hurry,” he said to Dan.
“Christ. Lighten the fuck up, we’re getting there,” his brother threw over his shoulder.
In the six months since Birdie had officially become his girl, and he’d pulled his head out of his ass and realized how much he loved her, Sawyer’s life had changed completely.
He didn’t wake and go through the motions anymore. Now he lived.
Her happiness wasn't fake, it was real, and encompassed whoever was near, which just happened to be him. She just walked into his house, and he felt happy. They had their moments. Life wasn’t always smooth sailing. Her inability to see the bad in someone or danger in a situation drove him crazy, just as his grumpiness did her.
Dan opened the door that would take him to Birdie.
“Second cell,” his brother said and waved him inside.
He found his girl doing a downward dog. Her fine ass was in the air while she stretched.
“What the actual fuck, Birdie?”
She looked through her legs at him, and he refused to acknowledge how hot, and at the same time, cute, she was.
“Your grump is here, Birdie,” Dan called.
“You can leave.” He shot his brother a look.
“Can’t do that. Need to be on watch in case the prisoner turns mean.”
Sawyer raised a middle finger. Dan was clearly enjoying himself way too much.
“Hey, you,” Birdie said, straightening.
“What the hell is wrong with you, woman? You know what happens in this crazy town when you don’t square dance if the Grapevine Twist starts up.”
She came to the bars, and he hated seeing her there, where he couldn’t reach her. Couldn’t draw her to him for a kiss.
She smiled. A full-face one that lit her pretty eyes. She wore the exercise leggings and a fitted tank because she’d left the house to go for a run. Running was something she’d just got into, because apparently, she was getting older, and it was good to keep her joints supple. Birdie had tried to get him to join her. He’d refused.
“I didn’t want to stop my run, and I didn’t think I should have to, Sawyer.” She looked at her watch. It was the new one he’d got her, that she’d fought him over, but he’d won, and it tracked her steps and other stuff.
