Where We Left Off by Megan Squires

Author:Megan Squires [Squires, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01CZ0IGGM
Goodreads: 29368507
Published: 2016-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

Mallory

“I’m so, so sorry.”

“Stop.” Boone dropped his hand heavily onto my knee. “Family doesn’t apologize.”

“I should’ve been paying more attention. The light had been on since this morning.”

“It’s no problem, Mallory. Honestly. It’ll be fine to leave it overnight where you parked it. I’ll come back with Sharon in the morning to get it and I’ll bring a gallon of gas, too.” He stroked his beard and switched his focus forward through the windshield. It was dark out now, the sun finally sliding from the sky. Lights flickered on at establishments that dotted the road as we passed, their illuminated colors an amber blur spread across my window. I let it lull me as the car rocked down the highway.

“So, are we going to talk about the tears?” Boone asked. “I’m not good with the emotional stuff, but I can sure try.”

I sunk into the passenger seat of the truck. There were cracks from the wear of time that spliced the leather and I curled my finger into one that had tufts of stuffing popping from it. It didn’t distract me the way I hoped, though. “I feel like I’ve just seen a ghost.”

“I feel that way a lot about Dylan.”

“Oh. No.” What an insensitive thing for me to say. I felt like an idiot. Of course it should be Dylan I was talking about. Dylan I was thinking of. “Just an old friend.”

“Of the boy variety?”

I smiled without meaning to. “Yes, an old boyfriend.”

“And you weren’t expecting to see him.” The truck swung wide around the corner and the Quinn house came into view at the edge of a court. I’d be staying there tonight, which was one part comforting and one part confusing. I didn’t want to be in a place that reminded me so much of my husband when I had thoughts of someone who wasn’t him. It wasn’t rational, of that I was well aware, but emotions rarely were.

“I honestly never thought I’d see him again.”

“Are you glad to have seen him?”

I bit my lip to tuck back the tremble. I only answered with a small nod.

Boone’s eyes met mine. “Then I’m very glad you saw him, sweetheart. So very glad.”

I needed that more than anything. I needed permission to feel again because on my own I didn’t know that I’d ever allow it. To feel anything other than the loss.

“Thank you, Boone,” I said as we pulled into the driveway and parked. I climbed down from the truck and shut its door. “For everything.”

“This is not the sort of thing you need to thank me for. I’m your dad. I’m happy that I get to come to your rescue.”

He held the front door open to allow me to step inside once we got to the house. The lights were off downstairs, all but the glow of the baby monitor in the kitchen that flickered in a rainbow arch from Sharon’s singing voice as she lullabied my boy to sleep.

“Sounds like our little munchkin is just getting to bed,” Boone acknowledged, his eyebrows waggling my direction.

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