I'm sorry. Maybe you didn't want me to.
He stared at the text. What did she mean? That he didn't want her to leave? Or she didn't want to kiss him?
Oh, I definitely wanted you to kiss me. Although you missed.
He grinned as he sent that back. Although there was a tight swirl in his stomach, because maybe he'd misread everything.
He fingered the envelope in his hand, barely noticing it as he stared at his phone.
He had told himself he was going to invite her to go with him if she texted him back, and she had. So, even though he could see that she was typing by the three little dots that were bouncing up and down, he sent another quick text.
Would you like to come deliver these with me?
He closed his eyes as he sent the text.
Please let her say yes. Please let her say yes.
His phone buzzed, and he opened one eye, glancing at it.
It was one word.
Yes.
He couldn't help it. He thought his face might crack from the huge smile that spread across it.
Come on back. I'll load up my truck.
I'm here.
He looked up, and there she was standing on the other side of the door.
He shoved the envelope in his back pocket, shoved his phone in the other, and hurried the two steps to the door, opening it up and letting her in.
"You came back."
What a lame thing to say. But he couldn't think of anything more intelligent.
"Yes. You asked me to."
"You kissed me."
She smiled and looked a little embarrassed.
"You didn't ask me to do that."
"It didn't occur to me to ask. Would you have said yes if I had?"
"I don't know. It seemed like a good thing to do at the time."
He laughed a bit, and honestly, it was all he could do not to step forward, wrap his arms around her, and kiss her properly, the way he all of a sudden longed to. That peck on the cheek was not nearly enough.
But, he didn't want to push her too hard and too fast. She had kissed him on the cheek and had rocked his world, but that didn't mean that she was ready for as much as he was immediately.
"I can help you carry things out."
"Just the bags on the floor."
She nodded, and they gathered up the bags, each of them taking several, and they were able to make it out to the truck in one trip.They set the bags in the back, and then he went over to her side and opened the door for her.
