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RAE
I waselbow deep in dishes, completely blocking Nora out as she rage-cleaned her table. Normally, I would be a better friend, but Davis had just fried my brain. I wasn’t sure how to process what he’d said, and the one person I wanted to talk to about it was currently cussing in Moldavian.
He loved me.
He wasin lovewith me.
But that couldn’t be right, because he didn’t know the real me. He’d spilled his entire life to me, his deepest secrets, and I hadn’t told him about mine. I didn’t deserve him.
“Rae, did you hear me?” Nora snapped, coming up next to me to load the sink with wine glasses.
I stared at her, dumbfounded. “He loves me.”
A singular brow went up, while her face remained twisted with annoyance. It was her way of silently saying she heard me but wasn’t quite committed to listening yet.
Shaking my head, I returned to the sink, rinsing glasses.
“I’m sorry, it can wait. Tell me what happened with Colson, and don’t yell it at me. Calmly explain it to me while I hand you the dishes I rinse.”
Deflating a bit, she conceded and stood shoulder to shoulder with me at the sink.
“He loves you. Like, loves loves…or thinks you’re adorable?”
My chest did that thing again where I felt like my lungs had grown a pair of wings.
Tipping a glass around the water, I handed it to her. “He said he loves me, then, to clarify, he said he'sinlove with me.”
“He clarified?”
“Oh yeah, nice big fat—you can’t miss my meaning—clarification,” I deadpanned while scrubbing at a tray.
“What did you say?” She gently set glass after glass in her drying rack.
Turning off the sink, but keeping my hips pinned to the counter, I let out a sigh. “Nothing…you came in, it was madness…but how could I explain that I loved him back, or that I have loved him for most of my life?”
A frown tugged at my best friend’s face as she processed what I wasn’t saying.
“You still haven’t told him?”
“I think you’d know; I mean…I assume he’ll have a fairly big reaction.”
The silence in the room pressed in on us as we stood at the sink. The shade above was still open, and from the lights strung up in the back, we could make out a silhouette across the fence. The figure faced Nora’s yard, sipping on what looked like a bottle of beer.
“Is he just drinking in the dark while watching your yard?” I asked, leaning over the sink to get a better view.
Nora gripped my shoulder, pulling me away from the sink and yanking the string, forcing the shade to slam shut.
“I can’t figure him out, and it’s driving me crazy!”
“What do you mean? What in the heck happened?”
She shook her head, walking back into the living room. Falling onto the seat next to her, I tipped my head back, thinking about Davis and the dogs, wondering if I should pick up a few of their favorite treats, and some whipped cream for Davis. He loved licking it off me, and I loved when he—
“Rae!”
Shit.
“Oh my God, you’re useless when you think about him.”
