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“Did you accomplish everything you wanted?”
“Mostly.”
“Are you happy?”
“When I’m not in New York, yes. I’m happy.”
“Then I didn’t make a mistake.”
Then I didn’t make a mistake.
Now that the layer of lies I’d been telling myself was gone, I could see so much clearer. He’d let me go all those years ago so I would be happy and accomplish everything I’d wanted. Because he’d believed I wouldn’t do that if I’d stayed with him. Cal didn’t act like a man who was indifferent.
And if he wasn’t indifferent . . . what did he feel?
What didIfeel?
“Thank you,” I whispered. Had I said that? I couldn’t remember, but regardless of my mixed up emotions, I owed him my gratitude at the very least.
His brow wrinkled ever so slightly. “I didn’t do anything.” He glanced away.
I turned his face back toward me. “You’ve done more than I deserve.”
He recoiled. “There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for you,” he said gruffly.
Oddly enough, I believed him.
And if it weren’t for his body and the truck, I’d have swayed on my feet at the realization.
“We should go have breakfast.” The words came out breathless. I didn’t want food.
I wanted to burrow into Cal, let him make the world disappear. Make me feel the way only he could.
That scared me.
We’d been married less than three hours.
And I already didn’t want to let him go.
Chapter Five
Cal
“You gonna answer that?”
I pointed at her phone. This was the fourth timeFatherhad flashed on her screen.
She picked up a piece of bacon and pointed it at me. “Give me your honest opinion.”
I blinked at her. I wasn’t sure what had happened when I’d had her pinned against my truck outside, but something had.
And it had taken every bit of my human strength not to kiss her.
I craved her mouth, needed it, maybe now more than I needed to be inside her. She’d meant what she said. That she only kissed people she loved. My gut told me she hadn’t shared her mouth with many people.
I stamped down the irrational flare of jealousy.
What if she’d only ever kissed me?
