“Yeah, just my mom doing mom things.She is worried about me.”She shrugged.
“Well, I nearly lost my life in line at the diner.They’re serving up those pumpkin pancake things, and yeah, people are going insane over them.”
Katie laughed, but she couldn’t help thinking about the fact she had skipped her period.She never missed one before now.This was not the time to say or do anything.It was probably nothing.Women missed them all the time.It was probably stress.
Only, she didn’t feel any stress.
Chapter Nine
“Do you want to talkabout it?”Connor asked.
Hawk groaned, rubbing at his head, then he pulled himself out from under the truck.“Talk about what?”
“Whatever has you so distracted you hit your head on the underside of the truck.We’ve been working on this bad boy for a long time, you and I.You’re also my son, and I know when your head is not in the game.So talk.”
“There’s not a lot to talk about.”
Connor laughed.“You know, you were a terrible liar when you were eighteen and you’re just as bad of a liar now.Your ‘tells’ are all the same, son.”
Hawk sighed and he tapped on the edge of the truck and then looked toward his dad.“How soon do you think it is to know you’re in love?”
“Love?”
“Yeah, I mean, do you have to wait a couple of years, a few weeks, or is there an acceptable time limit?”
Connor started to laugh and Hawk looked at his father in confusion.
“I don’t know what love is like for everyone else, but I glanced at your mother, and I knew within a second she was going to be my wife.”
“A second?”
“Yeah.”
He frowned.“Don’t you think that is a little ...absurd?You didn’t even know the woman.You just looked at her, and was it because she was the prettiest girl in the room?”he asked.
Connor sighed.“No, it was in her eyes.I think you can have a woman look pretty or not, but the eyes, they’re the tell.They say they’re the key to the soul or something like that.Your mom had kind eyes and also, when I looked at her, she had this smile on her lips, and I just was smitten, because I knew no matter what, I wanted to see that smile for the rest of my life.”
