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“But you don’t need to be worrying that I’m worrying,” she said. “I get it. See, being too sensitive.”
“Stop,” he said. “You let people get in your head. You let them tell you things that might have been true years ago but maybe aren’t now. I don’t see what everyone is all up in arms about with you.”
She sniffled some. “Well, getting upset just now is sensitive.”
“My mother was upset too, but I’d never call her sensitive.”
Ivy got up and went over to sit on his lap. “Thank you for that. It means so much to me. I guess you make me think more and that isn’t a bad thing.”
He kissed her on the cheek. “No. It’s not. Maybe we all need someone to see things we didn’t know.”
It was the way he said it. Like he had something going on that he wasn’t going to share.
She wanted to ask, but he picked his sub back up and took a bite and she took that as a hint to get off his lap and finish her dinner too.
She turned when there was a knock on the door to the conference room and saw Dahlia standing there.
“I thought you left,” Ivy said.
“No,” Dahlia said. “I just had my door shut. I was getting ready to leave now and saw the light on and figured I was the only one still here.”
“Nope,” she said. “I would have shut it all off. I’ve got a little bit of time left. Brooks brought me dinner. I needed to see him with my own eyes to make sure he was fine.”
“I’m fine,” he said. “And maybe I needed to see your sister with my own eyes too. You know, just to put a smile on my face.”
“Awww,” she said.
Dahlia rolled her eyes. “That is my cue to get out of here.”
“Thank you for saying that,” Ivy said.
“I figured I should. I could see her starting to frown when you said you had to see with your own eyes that I was fine.”
She sighed. “My sister might have had to calm me before I sent you a text. But I didn’t want you to know that.”
“Don’t worry about those things,” he said.
“I don’t want you to worry. I thought we talked about that.”
“How about this? We are just honest with each other and we go from there?”
“Sounds like a plan,” she said. And as much as she wanted to ask what more was going on in his mind, she’d told herself she might not want to know the answer and she’d had enough emotional upheaval today.
31
Heat Of The Moment
“Thanks for doing this last minute,” Brooks said on Sunday.
His mother wanted to see him too. She’d been calling or texting him more than normal. On Friday she’d asked if it’d be possible for Ivy to come to dinner too.
Since it’d been a few months that he’d been dating Ivy, he figured his mother had more restraint than he expected.
Maybe his mother was just so excited about Emma’s pregnancy that she’d been leaving him alone.
Or it could be she knew that if he was pushed enough, he’d clam up or come out swinging.
“Not a problem,” she said. “I’m excited to meet your family.”
