Claiming Fate: A rivals-to-lovers, small-town romance by Abby Knox

Author:Abby Knox [Knox, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Author Abby Knox, LLC
Published: 2021-09-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Izzy

I am fully aware that the storm has passed. I am also fully aware that Danny knows the storm has passed and hasn’t brought it up once. Nor has he gone outside to check the state of the roads or the state of his truck.

When a man forgets about his truck and instead listens intently to you babbling in the dark about your childhood, he goes up several notches in my esteem.

So does a man who rescues two pints of ice cream from my freezer and guesses right the first time that I want the mocha-flavored one.

Is it ridiculous that we’re still sitting in the tub, both of us knowing the storm is over? Yes.

Still, here we are, a couple of idiots eating ice cream in the dark, in my bathroom. The mattress is now laid out on the bathroom floor, “Just in case another squall comes through.”

I accept it. I don’t believe it for a second. But I accept it.

Did I mention he went up in my esteem for fetching ice cream? He went up another three notches for taking away our empty pints and dirty spoons.

It’s nice to be waited on, and it’s even nicer when he slides back into the same spot he was before, next to me in the tub.

“Better?”

“Much,” I reply. “Now I can sleep.”

“Same. Pre-bedtime, in the dark, is the only way to eat an entire pint of ice cream.”

Marry me.

“We have a lot more in common than we first realized. Maybe we should stop arguing,” he says.

I let out a huge yawn and say, “Maybe we should revisit the argument in the morning.”

“C’mere.” With his arm stretched across the length of the tub, he offers up himself as a pillow.

“Well. If we’re stuck here….”

“We are,” he says, both of us knowing that this is a lie.

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