Page 71 of A Home for Harmony
“You can take care of yourself,” Erica said. “We all know that.”
“But you still worry,” she said. “I get it. I’m the baby.”
“I worry about Theo and he worries about me. It’s not about being the baby. It’s just about being siblings and loving your family,” Erica said.
She didn’t know why she hadn’t thought of it that way.
“I know. The thing with Micah is good. We don’t see much of each other and he has to take the step for it to be more. I can’t and won’t force it. It’s not my way.”
“It’s not,” Erica said. “You’ve always been relaxed in a relationship.”
“Making someone be or do things they aren’t isn’t good for anyone.”
She’d dated enough men like that. Or been in relationships too.
So many saw her on social media and wanted to be with her for that and not who she was.
Half the time they thought she was putting on a front more than anything and that wasn’t the case.
“It’s not,” Erica said.
“Are you moving in with Tucker soon?”
Harmony was surprised that Micah brought it up the other night while they talked. She hadn’t thought much of it. She knew it would happen, but didn’t know when.
What really shocked her was that Micah asked what she was going to do when Erica moved out. As if he thought she couldn’t stay here alone or would want to move back to New York City.
When he asked the second part, she’d laughed like he was joking.
He hadn’t been.
She assured him she had no intention of going back there.
One, it was too busy for her.
Two, she couldn’t afford it.
Three, she didn’t like being out in the open and not knowing what was going on around her or who was looking at her.
Not that she’d admit that to anyone because no one knew she was secretly dreading any messages she got from an unknown source—and wondering if the sense of potential danger from them could be made up in her head.
That was the last thing she wanted—someone to tell her she was overreacting.
But she played it in her head enough that maybe she was making a bigger deal out of it all.
She was confusing herself on what she really felt half the time and that was so unlike her.
Erica shrugged. “We haven’t gotten that far yet. But I will at some point. I don’t have to move out officially until we getmarried. I can walk back and forth. I won’t leave you alone just yet.”
She laughed. “I’m not afraid of being alone.”
“You’ve never lived alone,” Erica said. “I know you are for a few days or nights, but I don’t want to rush it on you.”
She rolled her eyes. “Erica. I can walk down and see you if I need to. Besides, maybe I want the primary suite and office.”
“Ohhhhh,” Erica said. “Now I see where this is going.”
“Could be that Tucker won’t give up his office for you in the house.”
