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And that meant the world to him. No matter what else had happened between them and what their current status was, heneededher to know that he always had her back.
They went inside and got their coffees. They chatted with several people as they stood in line, but when Beau asked if she wanted to stay or take their order to go, she chose to go.
She was quiet during the first few miles on the way back to Autre.
“What’s going on in that pretty head?” he finally asked.
“I don’t know…” She sighed, then looked at him. “Just being at the coffee shop, I realized that I don’t know many of the people from Bad and the ones who are familiar from Autre…I just realized…” She blew out a breath. “You know I didn’t have atonof friends in high school. All the nice girls, like the ones your cousins are with, are older. And Alexis and Sarah don’t live here anymore.”
He nodded. His cousins, Josh and Sawyer, were married to great girls, but Tori and Juliet were a few years older than him and Becca. The other Landry cousins, like Fletcher and Zeke and Zander, were also married to amazing women, but they too, were older.
Alexis and Sarah were two girls Becca had hung out with in high school, but they’d gone to college out of state and were working in Texas and Wisconsin respectively.
But Becca had been a homebody as a teenager. She’d loved to stay home with her books. She hadn’t gone to parties, and ballgames, and sleepovers. That had all happened once she hit college and was why he’d tried to make those things a priority when they’d been dating.
“I mean, I have Toby here, of course, but he’s got Sam. And Savannah comes down a lot but she doesn’t live here and…” Becca blew out a breath. “The other teachers are all annoyed with me because of my dad anyway.”
She was staring at her coffee cup, playing with the lid.
“So you’re lonely.”
She looked over at him. Then nodded. “Yeah. I am.”
And he’d been avoiding her for three weeks. Well…fuck.
They should go out. Catch a movie, or find a bar with music, or something. He’d been avoiding time alone with her because he couldn’t get the thoughts of her and her vibrator and setting three out of his head. But they were supposed to befriends,dammit.
“Do you—”
His phone ringing cut him off. It was connected to the Bluetooth in his truck and MOM popped up on the screen. He glanced at Becca.
“Take it,” Becca said with a nod.
Hewasgoing to make the last three weeks up to her. She wasn’t going to be lonely anymore. Not with him right next door, for fuck’s sake. But her sweet ass was in his truck with him right now and he could just keep her with him…somehow…for the rest of the day.
He hit the button. “Hey, Mom.”
“Hey. I need a favor.”
“That’s my specialty,” he told her.
“A bunch of new plants and bushes that I special ordered just came in. But there’s a lot and I need you to run and get them for me.”
“Sure. I happen to be done with everything else. I can do it right now.”
“Excellent. Would you mind picking a couple of things up for Ellie and Cora too?”
“’Course not. Like, what?”
“They’ve ordered some new glassware for the bar, and it all came in, but they need someone to make sure that it’s going to look good before they haul it home, and they don’t have time to make the run up there themselves.”
Beau frowned. “Ellie and Cora are going to trust me to decide if their new glassware looks good?”
“Actually, we were hoping that Becca could go along with you. I think she’s off today.”
Beau looked over at Becca. She met his gaze with a smile and a shake of her head.
“Well,coincidentally, she happens to be with me right now.” He didn’t believe for one second it was a coincidence that his mom was calling right now, but he suddenly loved their matchmaking attempts. “We just grabbed coffee.”
