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“If you say so,” he said. “But Elise doesn’t play games like that. Just hearing Gabe’s name, she tenses or moves away. If you guys can pull off a miracle, this is going to be it.”
“Just let us do our work,” Grant said. “We’ve got this, right, Garrett?”
“My brother says we do, so I guess we do,” Garrett said.
Richard wasn’t so sure of it though.
6
THE PERFECT TIMING
“Elise is here.”
“I see that,” Gabe said to his father.
It’s like his eyes were radars when he walked in if he knew she’d be around. He’d find her and lock in and not be able to pull away.
Not that he knew she’d be here today, but he’d hoped.
“She just looked away,” his father said.
“Again,” he said. “I saw it.”
His father was pushing this.
“Are you going to go talk to her?”
“Dad,” he said. “Just because I found out last week what you have planned—”
“Not me,” his father interrupted him.
“Doesn’t matter who. My point is, just because I know doesn’t mean I’m going to change anything. As you can tell, she doesn’t even want to look at me. Why would I talk to her?”
“Because that is who you are,” his father said.
His father was laughing. Yeah, he’d go talk to Elise because he wouldn’t be able to help himself. But he wasn’t going to rush her either.
He had to play this out with the perfect timing.
For the moment though, he’d just appreciate the view since she wasn’t looking his way.
From her dark jeans that fit her curves well. She didn’t have those curves in college. It’s not like she had a lot now but more than when she was eighteen. They looked good on her. Really good.
Her brown hair was down and straight, falling across the back of her black sweater. She’d never been one that wore anything flashy or bright. Not that he could remember.
She had black ankle boots on her feet. Just a small wide heel. Nothing sexy there but not like it was work boots.
It didn’t appear to him she had a lot of makeup on but more than the last time he’d seen her. He’d guess she didn’t wear much at all on a daily bases, but he did notice a little shine to her lips. Like gloss or something.
Enough that he wanted to walk over and see if it was flavored like the kind she had on years ago. He remembered it was orange. Every time he smelled fresh oranges he thought of his mouth on Elise’s.
Pretty sad for his age and the time that passed, but he couldn’t get that memory out of his head or what happened after that first kiss.Orwhat happened days and weeks after to where they were today.
He said he didn’t have regrets in life, but that was one.
Too bad he didn’t know if there was anything he could have done to make the results different.
“Gabe,” Diane Fierce said, moving over to him. “We are so glad you were able to come. I just saw your mother. She was saying how Jayce is coming home today.”
