“But it’s not done?—”
“It has four walls and a roof. It’ll do.”
“You don’t have to go back there. You can stay?—”
I turned to face him from halfway up the stairs, running my eyes over the man I’d come to care so much about, despite my best efforts otherwise. The man I’d come to love.
“No, I can’t. Because every time I look at you, I’m going to remember this feeling in my gut. And it’ll just remind me that the one time—theonetime—I found somewhere I wanted to stay and someone I wanted to stay with, he was holding the door open for me to leave all along.”
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
SUTTON
Sutton:
Come to the cottage when you get home.
Laurel:
Why are you at the cottage? Daddy Grump said it’d be another six weeks at least.
Sutton:
I’m not here because it’s finished.
Laurel:
???
Sutton:
I moved back.
Laurel:
You WHAT?
Sutton:
Atlas and I had a fight.
Laurel:
Whatever happened he was definitely in the wrong
Obviously
But please I’m begging you do not make me move back into that cottage in its current state.
Have you seen my bedroom in his house? It has its own bathroom!
And a huge walk-in shower! It feels like I’m washing my hair in a rainstorm!
Have I mentioned the heated floors?
Sutton:
I’m not saying you have to stay here while it’s still a construction zone, but you will eventually. I’m just saying I couldn’t stay.
