“Yeah, I’m sure.”
“Are you going to…what are you going to do? Do you want to meet her?”
“I already did.”
His friend’s face was pure shock. “You did?”
He nodded.
“You didn’t have to do that alone. I would have flown out there.”
It didn’t surprise Deacon that Cillian would think if he hadn’t been there. Deacon would have gone alone, for most of his life, Cil was all Deacon had. “I wasn’t alone.”
“Oh, right…” Cillian blinked. “Did Poppy or Liam go with you?”
“No.”
“So you and Tab-i-lina?”
“No.”
“Are you trying to build suspense or something?”
“Do you remember the night after my parents’ funeral when I watched the bar for you because?—”
“The false alarm? Yeah.”
“Do you remember the blonde?—”
“The one you took back to the hotel?”
“How did you?—”
“I’ve known you since you were five.” He stared into the phone. “Also, I saw her get into your car on the parking lot security cameras, and she came back every day for two weeks and parked across the street, waiting for you to show up.”
“She didwhat?”
“She parked across the street, and I'm assuming she was waiting for you to come back.”
“Why didn’t you tellme?”
“I thought you were dealing with enough, I didn’t want to add stalker to the list. I figured she clearly didn’t know who you were if she was staking out the bar, so it was harmless enough.”
Had she done that? No. There was no way. Jenna?
Holy shit. The thought of her sitting outside waiting to see him… was that possible?
“She was probably coming back because she left without telling me her name or getting mine, she probably wanted to run into me.”
“Wait, are you telling me shefoundyou in Hope Falls?” Cillian sat up straighter in his chair, his expression and voice showing concern.
“No, actually I found her…accidentally. She had already lived here for months before I moved.”
“She did?” Cillian looked like Deacon was trying to sell him ocean front property in Arizona.
“Yeah, and I lived here for six months before we saw each other.”
“So are you two…together now?”
