Just Wanted You to Know by Kait Nolan

Author:Kait Nolan [Nolan, Kait]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Take The Leap Publishing

Chapter 9

“Wait! Wait!”

Declan paused, hand on the front door of the inn.

“You can’t go like that,” Ari insisted.

He glanced down at his gray suit. It wasn’t bespoke, but it had been serviceable enough for the infrequent occasions he’d needed one. And he’d even put on a tie and shined his shoes. “Why not?”

She held up a hand. “Don’t move.”

On a sigh, he waited as she disappeared into the kitchen. He was itching to get to the orchard to see Livia again. She’d been tied up most of the day hanging with Abbey, and he’d been occupied himself, trying to set some things in motion. Staying away had still been torture. The knowledge that his time with her was limited made every second precious. He didn’t want to waste a single one.

Ari reappeared with something in her hands. “You have to take these.”

“Flowers?”

She reached up to fasten a boutonnière in his buttonhole. “Daffodils are for new beginnings. It’s good luck. There’s a corsage for Livia, too.”

Declan couldn’t stop the smile. “You really are a romantic, aren’t you? Thanks. This is really sweet.”

Ari winked. “The sweet helps make up for the nosy.”

“Ah, so that’s how you get away with everything.”

She tapped a finger to the side of her nose and handed over the corsage in a little plastic box. “Go woo your lady.”

Saluting, he headed for the car, an extra spring in his step.

The closer he got to the orchard, the twitchier he got. He didn’t recall ever being this nervous before a date, not even when he’d been a teenager going to a school dance. Then again, it hadn’t felt like his life was riding on prom.

I don’t have to have everything figured out today. I just have to convince her to take a chance on us again.

He pulled up to Kyle and Abbey’s house and slid out of the car, smoothing down his tie. The door swung open before he got to it. But it was Abbey, rather than Livia, framed in the entrance. She looked him over, her gaze lingering on the corsage box in his hand. With a satisfied nod, she opened the door wider. “You’ll do.”

Declan stepped inside, taking in her yoga pants and blousy shirt. “You’re not going tonight?”

“Much as I want to, there is no dress on earth that will look like anything other than a tent on me right now, and the idea of dress shoes makes me want to weep. I’m sitting this one out.”

Kyle emerged from somewhere in the back, sliding an arm around his wife and dropping a kiss to her head. “We’re going to have a nice night at home eating ice cream and popcorn and bingeing her favorite movies.”

“There are worse ways to spend an evening.” Declan wondered if he’d ever get the chance to just cuddle up with Livia on the sofa and do exactly that.

“You come bearing flowers? That was a nice move,” Kyle observed.

“That’s got Ari written all over it,” Abbey declared. “It’s still a nice move.

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