He’d learn from his mistakes like he did most things in his life.
It was time to fix this too.
“It’s more than that now,” he said.
“We can all see,” Jim said. “No pressure or anything.”
“Nah,” he said. “Sorry, I need to get back to the bar.”
He watched them throw cash on the table that more than covered the tab. Tina would be happy.
His grandmother smirked at him. “Do you want to go talk to Jocelyn now that her parents have given you the stamp of approval?”
“What did you say?” he asked.
“Jocelyn’s parents. They obviously like you a lot. I can see. Not sure who the rest of them were.”
It hit him then. He’d been chosen for her and everyone said at that party that whatever the Fierces touched succeeded.
How could they have picked him when they knew nothing about him? Where he came from? Who he’d been with? Nothing.
Because they didn’t see the things he couldn’t push out of his past.
They saw his present.
Jocelyn saw their future.
“Yeah, I need to see her,” he said. “Can you cover for a few hours? She’s off today and I’m not sure if she’s home or not.”
“I’ve been covering crowds bigger than this most of my life. Go. Get your girl.”
“Do you think that was overkill?”Jim asked Stacy on their drive back to the office.
“No. I’m sick of the two of them dancing around each other. My daughter is in love and you can see Chance feels the same way. She brought him to that party with the hopes he’d hear about what the Fierces did and could tell him, then chickened out,” she said.
“I can’t believe she was able to not explain it from what we’d heard that was said to them.”
“Sometimes love really is blind. Maybe now they will open their eyes,” she said.
“Who the hell knows with Jocelyn.”
“She’ll knock some sense into him or I’ll do it to her,” she said, laughing. “I’m not worried. Then all we have left is Jayce and figuring out what is going on with him.”
“Good luck there. Jayce will tell us when he’s ready, but I agree, something is going on.”
“It’s never ending with these kids,” she said, shaking her head.
“They are far from kids, but I’m with you. Things are falling into place, so that’s something.”
44
NEVER SAID IT
Jocelyn opened the door when she heard the knock.
Part of her wanted to ignore the text from Chance. The other part said they needed to figure this out.
She’d blurted out her love for him and he stood there as if she had kicked him between the legs and he was too afraid to even bend over and clutch his junk.
