His Crimson Skye (Country Daddy, City Little Book 5) by Della Cain

Author:Della Cain [Cain, Della]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Decadent Publishing LLC
Published: 2022-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Skye

Wilkins was here. He. Lived. Here. And from every indication he had given me, he was as happy to see me as I was to see him.

If it hadn’t been for Aunt Gina’s coffee, it would’ve been difficult for me to leave him so quickly. And that was ridiculous. By all accounts, we had possibly two dates. Feeling a connection this strong, this soon made no sense and probably required some retrospection before jumping right in. And yet, that’s exactly what I was doing—jumping right in. And no part of me wanted to stop.

When I got home, Aunt Gina was nowhere to be seen, the letter we left for my uncle still on the table and Sir Chewsalot’s leash at the front door giving me every indication she was home despite not finding her. And then I heard a small bark. Of course, she was outside.

I slid the back door open to find her lounging on her chaise, only the chaise wasn’t in its normal spot. No. It was sitting right on top of the area of the patio that I had planned to work on today.

“You remembered my mocha.” She extended her grabby hands but didn’t make a move to get off her seat and, on her face? A knowing smirk.

“Do I even want to know why you are sitting there of all places?”

“The sun is hitting it just right.” There was barely any sun. “I guess you can’t work on it today. Maybe you could call that lawyer friend of yours and see if he has plans.”

And there it was.

“Wilkins does have plans…with me.” I pulled one of the chairs up and took a seat. “I went on a date with him once.”

“A date…yeah…that was the impression I got.” She scootched back in her chaise.

“It was.” And maybe the date went further than most, but that’s all it was. “I didn’t even give him my number because I was moving here the next day.”

“Which means he already lived here. Did he not mention that?”

He’d given me so many openings to ask, but did I? No. Why? Because I hadn’t wanted to think about that. I only wanted to be in that moment.

“We didn’t really talk about things like that because we both knew it wasn’t going anywhere.”

Sir Chewsalot came over and sat on my feet, apparently not too thrilled that I hadn’t given him all my attention as soon as I came outside. Of course, he hadn’t really paid attention to me, either, so I didn’t feel bad about that. I reached over and gave him the scritches he was begging for.

“I’m not going to meddle after this.” She was lying. She would, and I loved her for it. I might not want to share all the nitty-gritty details with her about everything, but knowing she was there for me—rooting for me—that was everything, “But from where I stood, it looked like you rounding the corner was better than Christmas to him, Christmas when you were little when it was all magical and such.

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