Heartwaves by Anita Kelly

Author:Anita Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anita Kelly

Hours later, Mae rubbed her eyes as the computer screen started to go blurry.

Dell had left an hour ago to feed the dogs. He had installed two of the floating shelves before he left, just offset from each other in the brief wallspace between the counter and the window on the left side of the building. Mae’s eyes kept drifting toward them, the shine of the varnish Dell had lacquered over the reclaimed wood they’d purchased together. A relief, a gift, to keep her eyes distracted from the cheap plywood that now constituted her beautiful picture window.

Mae gave herself a shake before focusing again on the order form in front of her.

She knew she should head home, too, or at least, back to the ADU—go home—but somehow she couldn’t make herself leave the shop. As if her mere presence could stop anything else from happening. She didn’t think anything else would, really; cowards were typically not super persistent. They had done their job. And it had been effective.

Still, Mae lingered.

Maybe something in her body knew. Maybe she knew she was waiting.

The knock on the door made her jump, but for the first time all day, she didn’t feel scared.

“Everyone else wanted to come,” Vik said, bag dropping off their shoulder onto the floor. They didn’t look at the window, didn’t glance at the rest of the shop. They only had eyes for Mae. “But I told them no. Since you said you didn’t even want me to come, I thought it’d be too much. Is that okay?”

Mae let herself be wrapped in Vik’s arms.

“Yes,” she said. “Yes, this is okay. This is perfect.”

“Well,” Vik added, into Mae’s hair, “I would’ve let Jackson come. But he has to watch his sourdough.”

And Mae laughed, before she finally started to cry.

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