The Broken Road by Grea Warner

Author:Grea Warner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Family Relationships, Friends to Lovers, Small Town Romance, Winery, Second Chance Romance, Women's Fiction, Saga
Publisher: Inkspell Publishing
Published: 2024-08-08T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

It was as if he was waiting for me. The porch light flicked on as soon as I started to climb the steps. Vino—who, indeed, had done his business mere minutes after we’d stepped outside—beat me to the actual door, which was opening upon my approach.

“Griff ...” It was all I could manage.

I was seeing him from a different perspective than my first sighting at the airport ... or our drive ... or even mere moments before when he had dropped me off. I’m sure he didn’t look any different. He didn’t suddenly place pain across his forehead or sketch fear in his eyes. It had been there the whole time. I just hadn’t picked up on it, though because ...

“I ... I didn’t know. I didn’t know a plane went down,” I repeated what I had told my siblings. “The one from Oakland ...”

I knew Ryan and Megan were concerned about me, but the man in front of me had been, too. I knew that. And he had an even more tragic association with things falling from the sky. I’d made that connection as I’d hung up with Ryan.

Griffin bit his bottom lip and nodded before speaking. “I was wondering. How did you not know, though?” After I explained about sleeping with earbuds and then once waking up, being immediately on the phone, he added the details he knew. “Teagan, it was the last one out of Oakland going that direction. I didn’t even know if it was your plane. I—”

Shit. He turned around. He turned around right then. He couldn’t face me. He was getting emotional. Or, more like, he was trying not to.

I didn’t know what to do. It was unknown territory for us. But not that it wasn’t appropriate or welcomed.

I gave him a second and then softly called out his name. “Griffin?”

He did look at me once again—his light brown eyes clear but seemingly filled with so much. “Come on. Come in.” He stepped aside so I could enter.

I made my way into the apartment with Vino tagging along. The goldendoodle staked out his new surroundings as Griffin shut the door and I stood in the center of the room. So much had happened since the first time I was there. So many wonderful things ... and then something that had changed it all. I looked at the sofa where we had physically found each other the first time. No regrets. Absolutely. None.

“Come here.” He sat on the other sofa.

When I joined him, there was only the slightest of hesitations before we both simultaneously welcomed each other’s touch. Griffin extended his arm and I melded onto the side of his strong torso. He then wrapped his arm around me a little tighter. That was really something new between us, too. We had slept together in both the sexual way and as a means of rest, but, besides me quickly thanking him with a hug at Dylan’s, we had never really cuddled or held each other as a means of comfort or companionship.

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