“I know.”
“She’s older than my dad!”
“I know.”
“Does he even realize she’s using him? For what? We don’t have anything!”
“Look,” she said, turning me to face her as we stopped in front of my car. “Just get in Delilah and go to work. There’s nothing you can do about this now.”
“Right. Just get through the day.”
“Exactly. Maybe things will look better at night.”
“Like she won’t seem like a blood-sucking vampire when the sun goes down?”
Ellie winced. “Well, you probably won’t get that lucky, but maybe the rock will look smaller.”
“Doubtful.”
“Just go to work and forget about this. She’s twice his age. With any luck, he’ll get bored with her in a week.”
I smiled, but only half-heartedly. I had a feeling that by the time this woman was done with my brother, he’d be missing more than his heart.
“Just go inside,”I muttered to myself. “It can’t be that bad. You made it all up in your head. She’s secretly a nice woman and that was just a bad first impression.”
Taking out my lavender balm, I took a huge huff of it, hoping it would calm me enough so that I didn’t commit murder the moment I walked through the door.
That would be really bad for business.
Woman relying on natural herbs to cure ailments goes on a killing spree at her house.
What a headline that would make.
“Okay, this is going to be fine. I’m going to walk in there with a smile on my face and pretend that everything is fine. Because everything is fine. Sawyer has a fiancée, and he’s home, and he’s fine.”
Fine.
I rolled my eyes as I thought of the number of times one person could use the word fine before it sounded idiotic. Shoving my door open, I slammed the door just a little too hard.
“I’m sorry, Delilah,” I whispered, running my hand over her roof. “Taking my frustrations out on you is not the way to go.”
“Talking to your car again?” JR shouted from next door.
“And petting her,” I smiled as I turned around to face the handsome brute who had been ignoring me for days.
Shaking his head, he started to walk away, but I wasn’t having it. I stomped across his lawn, grateful the snow had melted by now, and laid into him.
“Hey, why are you ignoring me?”
“Excuse me?” he asked over his shoulder as he unlocked his door.
“Yeah, ever since you stayed at my house, you’ve been gone first thing in the morning, and then you come back mysteriously throughout the day when I’m not here, and then you’re gone again all night!”
Quirking an eyebrow at me, he didn’t bother to grin. Because I was annoying him. That’s what I did.
“Checking up on me?”
“No, I’m simply noticing that you were here before and now you’re not.”
