Page 124 of Divorced from Number Thirty-Eight
Hell, I don’t know if I was ever that carefree.
Not with responsibility sitting so heavy on my shoulders.
Smitty claps me on the shoulder so hard it’s a fucking miracle that my ass isn’t shoved right through the bench. “She’ll be okay.”
I shake my head. “I know she will be.”
I’ll make sure of that.
And…she can take care of herself with that steely spine of hers.
“Luna’s activated Bri and Kailey. She won’t be alone.”
Some of the tension knotting my insides loosens. Faye hadn’t mentioned anything—then again, we spent the afternoon digging through ashes. “Yeah?”
“They have shopping plans and movie plans and Girls’ Night In plans.” He bumps my shoulder with his. “She’ll be covered. And she won’t be alone—not ever again.”
Christ. He’s an annoying fuck.
But he’s also the best.
“Thanks, Smitty.”
He shrugs one big shoulder. “It’s what we do.”
See? The best.
But even being the best doesn’t mean he’s off the hook when it comes to getting shit.
“I guess I’ll have to cancel it,” I say as I pull on my jock.
“Cancel what?”
“The wombat petting zoo experience I booked you.”
He freezes as he’s reaching for his shoulder pads, turns to glare me. “Dude?—”
I grin at him.
He shoves me so hard I nearly topple from the bench.
But he’s laughing too. “I swear, one of these days, I’m going to figure out what terrifies you and I’m going to torture you with it.”
I already know what terrifies me.
I thought it was getting close to someone else, thought it was falling into the same old habits with a new woman.
The reality is that now what terrifies me…is losing Faye.
I’m not going to let that happen.
Shoving that down, I strap on my shin guards and tug up my socks, “what do you make of Leo and Harper?”
“I think”—he drops his voice to a whisper, shocking the shit out of me—“that they went home together.”
My brows fly up. “They did?”
“Yup. Aiden said Leo hung out after the baby shower after the rest of us left, helping”—he makes finger quotes—“her clean up and load her truck…and then she sent her staff back to the kitchen while she got into Leo’s car.”
