“We’re not done talking,” he says stubbornly, and I roll my eyes.
“Well, I am.I’ll see you around, Ransom.”
With that, I grab my duffle bag, turn, and hurry into my house.Cameron isn’t home, so she must be working at the diner already.I drop my duffle bag next to the washing machine and groan.
“That was harder than I thought it would be,” I mumble.
My stomach flips, and I cover my mouth with my hand as I sprint into the bathroom.I throw up the sandwich I ate for lunch and then heave until nothing else is left.
“Ugh,” I groan as I rinse my mouth up.
Maybe I should call in to work tonight.Except, I kind of need the money now, especially after my little impromptu vacation.
I dump my laundry into the washing machine and start it, then shuffle into my bedroom and collapse onto the bed.I’ve been so tired the last few days and feeling nauseous.I guess that I just figured that it was from stress and that’s why I was feeling down.
I must doze off because I wake up an hour later and have to scramble to move my clothes to the dryer and pull on my uniform.I hurry down the street towards Nosh and rush inside.
I’m not surprised to see Ransom sitting in a booth in the corner.I’m sure he’s waiting for me and I feel exhausted already from just thinking about pretending to be indifferent to him for the next few hours.
“Hey, Ruby!Welcome back,” Ford tells me with an easy smile.
“Hey,” I say weakly.
“You’re back!”Cameron cries as she comes out of the back and wraps her arms around me.
“Hey, I missed you too,” I tell her, smiling as I hug her back.
“The house was so quiet and lonely without you,” she complains.
“You should have told me,” Ford says with a frown.“I could have come to keep you company.”
My eyebrows rise at that.It’s obvious that Ford has a thing for Cameron, but he’s never been so bold about it before.
Cameron ignores him, and I head behind the counter to clock in and grab my apron.
“Ransom has been losing it ever since you left town,” Cameron tells me as she joins me in the break room.
“Yeah, he followed me home when I first got back to town.”
“Oh, I know.He ran out of here like the place was on fire as soon as you drove by.He didn’t even pay his bill,” she says with a laugh.
I try to smile, but I’m sure that it looks forced.
“Did you two talk?”She asks me, and I nod.
“Kind of.I told him it was just a one-night stand and that I didn’t want anything else from him.”
She snorts, and I glare at her.
“Sorry.Did he buy that?”She asks.
“No, not really,” I sigh.
“What are you going to do now?”
“Try to avoid him.I’m hoping that after a few days, he moves on.”
“I don’t think that’s going to happen,” she warns me.
