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“Looks perfect to me. Good work.” After setting the drinks on the tray, Morgan started to glance at Opal. A movement caught her eye.
She saw him, walking toward the glass doors to the patio. His head turned away, but she caught a glimpse of the profile. The gilded hair, the build, even the way he moved.
Everything in her went weak.
“Hey, Morgan, are you—”
Then everything went fierce.
She shot around the bar, caught him just before he reached the doors and grabbed his arm. “You son of—”
Startled, he turned, and she looked up at a stranger.
“I’m sorry. I’m very sorry. I thought you were…”
“Glad I’m not.” He offered a puzzled smile. “Bad breakup?”
“I’m very sorry,” she said again.
Turning, breath backing up in her lungs, gray closing in on the sides of her vision, she rushed out.
“Patio, table three.” Opal pushed the tray at Bailey. “Serve it, cover the bar.”
She darted out, ended up on Miles’s heels. He came up short outside the women’s room, just pointed.
Opal pushed in, found Morgan sitting on the floor, back against a wall, gasping for air.
“Slow it down.” She crouched, put her hands on either side of Morgan’s face. “Breathe slow now.”
“Can’t. Can’t breathe.”
“Yes, you can. Slow. Nice and slow.”
“Hurts. Chest hurts.”
“Sure it does. Push the air out, nice and slow. Pull it in again. It’s a panic attack, so we’re going to calm right down. That’s it. In and out. My sister used to get these after some asshole jumped her in college. Keep it coming.”
“I thought—I thought he was…”
“Yeah, I got that. You hold on.”
Straightening, she went to the door, shoved it open. “She needs some water.”
When she stepped back, Morgan had drawn up her legs, had her face pressed to them. “I’m okay. I’m all right. I’m so embarrassed.”
“Don’t be stupid.” Opal walked over at the knock on the door. Took the glass. “Give us another minute,” she told Miles.
“Drink it.” She knelt in front of Morgan again. “Don’t gulp it.”
“Thank you. He just looked so much like him until I…”
“You’re sure it wasn’t?”
“Yes.”
“Good thing you stopped then.” As Morgan sipped water, Opal sat back on her heels. “You were winding up to punch him.”
“Oh God.” She lowered her head again. “That would’ve capped it.”
