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“Sadie, you’re not thinking straight.”
I narrowed my eyes at him. “What are you talking about?”
“You can’t go to Idaho. Get that out of your head. If you really want a boyfriend, he should be somewhere local because this is where you belong.”
“What you mean, this is where I belong?”
“You belong in Montana, and if I have anything to say about it, you—”
“Wyatt Hamilton, are you saying that you don’t want me to leave the state of Montana?”
“I’m just saying how are we supposed to be best friends if you leave the state of Montana?”
“Lots of people have best friends in other parts of the country, Wyatt. Anyways, when we get married, our husband and wife will be our best friends, and we will just—”
“Sadie, you’re already trying to replace me.” He nodded slowly. “I see how it is.”
“I’m not trying to replace you. I’m just stating a fact.”
“I don’t know what’s come over your head, Sadie, but I think you need to stop being so boy-crazy. I thought that was a phase in high school that died down in college. But now it seems to have reared its ugly head again.”
“What are you talking about, Wyatt? Just because I want a boyfriend, just because …”
I let my words trail off. There was no point in having this conversation with him. Wyatt didn’t understand what it was to want to be in a serious relationship because he didn’t want one. He didn’t understand that I wanted to get married and have a family, maybe because he wasn’t in that place in his life. He liked the status quo. He liked going out with women and doing whatever he did, and then having me there on the side as his best friend to talk to and do other fun things with. But that wasn’t enough for me. I didn’t want just a best friend. I wanted a lover, someone who would take care of me and look at me with adoration in his eyes.
I loved Wyatt. He was my best friend, and he would always have a special place in my heart. But I was getting older, and I wanted more than that.
And after speaking with my cousins in Idaho, I knew that I had to make a move for myself. I had to look for love, even if Wyatt Hamilton didn’t approve.
Chapter Sixty-One
Wyatt
“Oh, shit,” I mumbled under my breath as Shane Wakefield walked into the barbecue restaurant. It was just my luck that he would show up.
He saw me almost immediately and then looked over and saw Sadie sitting next to me. A grin spread across his face as he headed over to us. He held up his hand to wave, but I looked away, pretending I didn’t see him. I did not want to talk to this asshole. I turned to Sadie in hope that she wouldn’t notice him. “So I was thinking that—”
“Hey, guys!” Shane obviously missed the fact that I didn’t want to speak to him as he stopped by our table. “Hey, what’s up, man?” He nodded at me. “Sadie, you are looking absolutely beautiful today.”
“Hi, Shane. I didn’t even know you were back in town.” She jumped up and gave him a hug.
I frowned. She was far too friendly. Didn’t she understand that men took hugs to mean something else? Shane was probably thought she was a sure thing already. I would have to talk to her later.
“Yeah. I got back to town about a week ago,” he replied. “In fact, my mama saw Mrs. Hamilton at the store yesterday and asked to pass along a message because I didn’t have your number.”
“Oh, what message?”
“I just wanted you to give me a call. I guess I could have popped over to your dad’s ranch, but I didn’t want to just show up on announced, you know?”
“Oh, that would’ve been fine, but I wasn’t even there. I just got back from Idaho today. Wyatt picked me up.”
“Hey, man.” Shane nodded at me. “Good to see you, buddy.”
“Yeah,” I said in response, not really happy to see him. Shane and I had been friends in high school. We’d both been on the football and baseball teams together, but he had been a douche bag. He had broken almost every girl’s heart and didn’t care. Sadie had had the biggest crush on him for the longest time. He had never shown any interest in her, but he’d talked all kinds of trash about her in the locker rooms.
The day he said he wanted to take her behind the bleachers so that he could bend her over, I’d told him in no uncertain words that if he even dared think about it, I would knock his front teeth out. And that had been that.
“So, what you’ve been up to, Wyatt?” Shane asked.
