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“You should have called and let us know you were coming. We would have found you someplace to stay.”
“I actually rented a house in town.”
“You did? Does that mean you’re staying for good?” she asked, a twinkle sparkling in her eyes.
“It means I’m staying for now. We’ll see how things go.”
“Well, I know someone who will be especially glad you’re here.”
I prayed that was Jack, but like she said, he wasn’t here. “Okay, I’ll bite. Who’s that?”
She opened her mouth to answer, but the door behind her flew open and Fox came running out, scooping me up into his arms and twirling me around. I screamed, not expecting the welcome from him.
“Fox! Put me down!”
He laughed, finally dropping me to my feet and stepping back. “See, everyone said you were staying in Florida, but I knew you’d be back. I told them you weren’t through with a certain someone.”
“Actually—”
“I mean, after what happened between us in Oklahoma, I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist my smoothies. I knew you’d come back for more.”
I flushed bright red, shoving my hair behind my ear. “You’re right,” I smiled. “I…missed them a lot in Florida.”
It wasn’t a lie. After eating at four every evening with my parents at the same buffet restaurant, even Fox’s smoothies sounded good right about now.
“Well, I’ll whip one up for you and?—”
“Not today,” I interrupted. “We just stopped to say hi. We still have to unpack and get settled into our new house.”
“Do you need some help?” Rae asked.
“Actually, this is something I want to do on my own.”
After being moved around wherever Baz wanted me to live, I liked the idea of picking out my house and setting it up for myself. I didn’thave a lot of money, but I was able to get everything transferred from my accounts in Texas, and I was going by next week to set up a new account at the local bank. On top of that, my parents lent me some money to get back on my feet. I didn’t like it, but after Rico stole all that money from me, I couldn’t exactly say no.
“Well, when you’re ready, we’re having a drink, and I want to hear about everything since you’ve been gone.”
“Just one?”
“Like there’s such a thing?” she retorted.
Pulling out a piece of paper, I handed it over. “That’s my new address and my phone number, in case you need to reach me.”
“You got a new cell phone?”
“Landline,” I corrected. “I haven’t replaced my cellphone yet.”
She shot me a quizzical look. “A…landline.”
“That’s right. I’m going back to the simpler days of phones that you don’t carry around with you. It’s going to be great.”
“Sure, if you live in the Stone Age.”
“Well, since they didn’t have phones at all in the Stone Age?—”
“Yeah, yeah. It was a joke.” She looked at the paper again, her eyebrows shooting up. “This is where you live?”
“Yeah, the realtor in town said it was the only vacancy. Why? Is it not a nice area?”
