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“It’s fast,” I say because one of us has to point that out at least, right?
“I don’t care,” he says. “Do you?”
“No,” I whisper.
I look back at the estate through the window. I can see his reflection in the glass.
This place already feels far too much like home. Then, something comes over me, a pure feeling of such intensity that I can’t ignore it.
All I can do is give it a voice.
“I love you.”
There’s a pause, a beat. I look at Finlay with the sudden thought that I might have said too much, gone too far.
But he isn’t upset.
He’s looking at me with wonder in his eyes.
“I love you, Alana,” he replies.
“Then,” I say and take a very deep breath because I don’t want to bring reality into this, but it will come whether we want it to or not. “What do we do now?”
And I’m not prepared for the seriousness of the look that falls over Finlay’s face.
CHAPTERTWENTY
Finlay
There is only one way forward that I can see.
Alana is an adult woman, strong enough to make her own choices. But that isn’t the whole story because she has family and friends back home. Plans that now will go unfulfilled.
I’m asking her to stay here, which means everything she might have dreamed of before is gone.
Everything except the children she’s told me she wants, which I will take great joy in giving her.
Still, the next move is obvious. It just isn’t one I particularly looked forward to.
“We have to call your parents,” I tell her.
Because if I owe anyone the respect of talking it over, it has to be them.
Alana winces.
“I don’t know.”
“Well, are you going to just stay here without telling them?” I ask solemnly. “I’m guessing at least one of them was going to meet you at the airport when you planned to fly home.”
Alana flushes which means yes.
“My dad,” she admits. “But, I just….”
“You can’t leave them in the dark,” I tell her.
A little uneasiness hits the bottom of my stomach. If she wants to go back in order to talk to her parents in person, I will have to agree that it’s probably the best course of action.
I’m not suggesting it myself because I don’t want her to go. But, if she does, there is a chance this could all just turn out to be a spell that can be broken, her parents might even convince her that I’m no good for her.
