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“I really am sorry for what I put you through the last few weeks.”
“I know you are.”
Fox lifted his arm, showing me his thumb. I hadn’t noticed the Band-Aid wrapped around it.
“What happened?”
“Your duck bit me.”
I laughed. “Are you serious?”
“It was a few days after you left. But we worked it out. We’re friends now.” He shook his head. “Even a bird figured out I was a dumbass before me.” He paused. “He misses you.”
“I miss her, too.”
Fox was quiet for a while. “I want it all, doc.”
I tilted my head to look up at him. “All what?”
“You. Kids. A duck. A dog. Fenced-in yard where they can all run around. Maybe even a stupid minivan. And I want it soon, sweetheart.”
My heart raced so fast, I thought it might jump out of my chest. “Are you sure?”
“Never been more sure about anything in my life. You don’t want to come back to Laurel Lake, I’ll move here.”
I had a sudden vision of Fox walking down the streets of Manhattan, standing head and shoulders above most, looking like he wanted to rip the head off of everyone in his way. I chuckled. “You? In Manhattan?”
“Why not?”
“Oh, I don’t know. Have you ever been on a subway?”
“No.”
“Taken a public bus?”
“No.”
“Do you know what alternate-side-of-the-street parking is?”
“No.”
“How do you feel about street meat?”
“Huh?”
I smiled. “You’d be miserable in Manhattan, Fox.”
“What about somewhere right outside the city, then? So it wouldn’t be too long of a commute for you. They have places like that near here, right? Jersey or Long Island?”
I looked back and forth between Fox’s eyes. “You’d really move here for me?”
“I’d do anything for you, Josie.”
My heart melted. “It means the world that you would give up so much. But you don’t have to move to New York. I’ll move to Laurel Lake.”
“Really?”
I nodded. “I love it there. It’s the only place that’s ever really felt like home.”
