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“Not in eight years,” Holly countered.
“Do you want to do more?”
Sometimes, more than she wanted her next breath.
But Holly was not admitting that to Kit.
Though Holly had very much enjoyed the physical component of her relationship with Chace, she also loved just spending time with him. Talking. Swapping stories about their day. Watching old movies. Cheering for their favorite sports teams. Taking long walks in and around Hickory Ridge. Dancing, either at The Bootleg or outside under the stars.
So many things that were never the same with anyone else.
Hell, who was she kidding? Holly couldn’t even imagine doing those same things with anyone else but Chace.
She really didn’t want to either.
“Your silence is answering my question again,” Kit informed her.
Yeah, Holly supposed it was. “He asked me to give us until the New Year.”
Her revelation was met with dead silence for at least ten long seconds. A totally rare occurrence where her sister was concerned because no matter the topic, Kitalwayshad something to say. Good. Bad. Or indifferent.
Holly couldn’t help but wonder what kind of response her sister was formulating that her normally rapid-fire mind needed to think about before voicing. She didn’t have to wait long to find out.
“What the hell does that mean?”
“To not fight the feelings we obviously still feel for each other and just see what happens.”
“And you agreed to this?”
Holly couldn’t tell if Kit asked out of disbelief or hope.
Maybe a little of both.
“I had some questions I needed him to answer first.”
“Like?”
“Well, the biggest one waswhy.”
“And his answer was?”
“He said we had everything to gain and nothing more to lose.” Holly recounted the rest of the conversation to Kit. The questions she posed. The answers he gave. The sense most everything made. The doubt she continued to harbor regarding Chace’s insistence he could refuse any assignment SSI offered him.
Well, maybe she didn’t doubt he had the option to refuse, but whether he would.
“He’s there now.”
“But for how long?”
“I think that’s a conversation you and Chace need to have. Lay it all out on the table. Tell each other how you feel. What you want. Your expectations. Hell, even your fears. Both of you left a lot of things unsaid eight years ago. Now is the time to put everything out there. Go big or go home.”
“He could break my heart again, Kit.”
“Or he could make it whole. What chance would you rather take?”
Good question. “When did you become so wise?”
“Honestly, I think some of it comes with age.”
