Page 35 of Like the Season
“I’ll drive you tomorrow, too.”
“No, I’ll be okay. They told me I can park in the patient area right by the entrance for a couple of weeks. He won’t dare start something with me there. Or I can sit in my car in the parking garage and call for a security escort, and they’ll send a cart after me.”
“And you’ll not be stubborn and refuse it, right?”
“I’m not arguing with you. I won’t be stubborn, I promise. I just thought he was a jerk. I didn’t know he was a psycho.”
“This mean you’ll let me and Caleb pack your apartment this weekend and get you moved?”
At least it earned him a laugh. “I’ll pack as much as I can over the next couple of months, then we can schedule you to come out. I don’t want to spend my first weekend meeting my step-dad doing that. I’d rather show him around the area.”
Step-dad.
Boyd couldn’t argue with that reasoning.
Well, he could, but he wouldn’t. “You’re going to love Florida, sweetheart, I promise.”
“Yeah, well, I promise I’m also going to start searching for jobs there online. If I find one before then that won’t mind me going on maternity leave, maybe I’ll move sooner.”
“Really?”
“Even my stubbornness knows its limits.”
He smiled. “Thanks, sweetheart. Love you.”
“Love you, too, Dad. Now let me get back to work.”
He relaxed a little, because at least he nowknew. She would move to Florida.
All he had to do was try to coax her into making it sooner rather than later.
