“Sure. It’ll be fun to ride in that car again.”
Will grinned. “You like my car, eh? I’ll give you a ride in it any time you want.”
“Would you let me drive it?” Amy asked.
Lance laughed as Will said, “Well, I don’t know about that.”
“Can I come too, Daddy?” Isabella asked.
“I think it would be better if you stayed here with Julia. It might take a while to get the groceries, and I don’t want you to get bored.”
“Will you bring me a cookie?” she asked, an innocent smile on her face.
Amy almost laughed out loud when Will sighed and nodded. “Yes, I’ll bring you a cookie.”
He’d probably get a whole pack of them, Amy figured. She knew she would.
“If you think of anything more, go ahead and pick it up,” Lance said as she grabbed her purse and phone from the counter. “Can you cover the bill, Will? I’ll settle up with you later.”
“Yep. That’ll work.”
After they said goodbye to Isabella, Will led the way out to his vehicle. He opened the passenger side door for her and with a sweeping motion of his hand, he said, “Your chariot awaits, milady.”
Smiling, Amy climbed into the passenger seat and buckled her belt as he shut the door.
I don’t want to live where the winters are cold. I don’t want to be involved with a man who has loved so deeply before. I don’t want to have to compete with a dead woman.She kept running the reminders through her mind as he slid behind the wheel and started the engine.
As they headed for the highway, Amy recognized the song playing as one from Josh and Cami’s latest album. She hummed along as Will turned toward Collingsworth.
“I’m looking forward to their concert,” Will said. “It’s great that they give one every year when they come. I know I’m not the only one who enjoys it.”
“I always like it when they give a concert at our church in Dallas. Of course, they have a pretty hard time topping their first concert there.”
“The one when Josh proposed?”
“Yep. I was so excited I could hardly keep it to myself. In fact, I avoided Cami most of that day after Josh told us his plan so I wouldn’t spill the beans.”
“I hear she was quite surprised.”
“She told me later that she was beginning to wonder if he’d ever propose. She knew what she wanted, but it seemedto be taking him forever to get to that point.”
“Sometimes guys can be a little slow, but we get there eventually.”
Though shereallydidn’twanttoknow, Amy figuredthat asking about Delia might help break the hold this man still had on her heart. “How did you propose?”
Will’s head jerked around, and their gazes met for a moment before he turned his attention back to the road. He didn’t say anything right away, and Amy wondered if perhaps he wasn’t going to reply, but then he said, “I didn’t do anything formal like Josh did. We just both kind of decided we didn’t want a long distance relationship, and the only way we could be together was if we got married.”
His response surprised Amy. For some reason, she had envisioned a super romantic proposal on the beach at sunset or something. “Not everyone does it up big like Josh did. He’s just lucky Cami agreed. I can’t imagine anything worse than proposing publically and then having the lady say no.”
“I’m sure it’s happened a time or two. While it was great to witness Josh’s proposal to Cami, I feel it’s a more private thing. The wedding is public enough.”
“So you wouldn’t want your guy to propose to you on the Jumbotron at a football game?”
Amy laughed. “No way. I’d say no and make him do it again privately. But I would hope that any guy that I was that serious with would know me well enough to know how to do it right.”
Will didn’t say anything more as he pulled the vehicle into the Walmart parking lot and found a spot. Amy opened her car door before he could get around to do it for her. His gentlemanliness was one more attraction she needed less exposure to.
They walked side by side to the entrance of the store.
