Page 37 of Guarding My Love

“I’d like that,” she said. “I’m going to visit my sister Memorial Day weekend. She’s due around then and they are going to induce her so I want to be there.”

“That’s nice,” he said. “What are you doing with Marco?”

“He’s going with me. I’m driving. I flew there once. Even though it’s a short flight from JFK to Logan, it’s getting through traffic, sitting in the airports, then getting a ferry after I rent a car or at least get a ride to the ferry, then someone picking me up. It’s actually less time for me to just drive there, and then I can bring Marco.”

“I would have kept him if you wanted,” he said. “Something to consider.”

“Really?” she asked. “That’s a sweet offer. But I’m not sure I can be without him, and if he spends a few days with you, he might not want to come back to me.”

He laughed. “That could have been my evil plan. I’ve never had a dog or thought I’d want one.”

“I’d suggest you get one, but you’re gone long days and it wouldn’t be fair to keep them locked up.”

“I could bring a dog to work with me if I had to,” he said.

“Your boss has to be pretty great to allow that,” she said.

“He has his moments,” he said, smirking. “Are you going to answer your phone?”

It’d been vibrating in her pocket on and off, but she was ignoring it.

She hated people who were on the phone nonstop when they were around her.

Every boyfriend she’d ever had spent more of their attention on an electronic than her.

Foster hadn’t once looked at his phone in her presence. She didn’t realize that until he’d just made that comment.

“It’s just a text. Can’t be anything important.”

“It could be your sister,” he said. “Did you think of that?”

No, she hadn’t and rushed to pull it out of her pocket.

When she saw who it was from and read the text she only got pissed and put it away.

“Not Amanda,” she said.

“But someone to upset you,” he said. “It’s all over your face.”

“Sorry,” she said. “It put me in a mood and I don’t want that.”

How dare Landon reach out to her now and say he missed her and made a mistake?

When she felt the phone vibrate again, she ground her teeth.

“Everything okay?” he asked.

“Just my jerk of an ex. He seems to think nine months later I’ll take him back.”

“He’s just reaching out now after all that time?” he asked.

“No,” she said. “He’s been texting me on and off for months and I ignore it.” She pulled her phone out and showed him. The last thing she wanted was for the guy she was trying to get to know to think she was jerking him around.

“You don’t have to show me,” he said.

“I don’t want you to think I’m lying about it. All the texts are one way.”

He reached for her phone and scanned over all the declarations of love and how much Landon missed her and that he wanted to take care of her. It was more embarrassing than anything, but was worth it for Foster to know where she stood.

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