37
LEAH
“Hey.”
Hayden looked up from a cup of coffee he hadn’t touched, his face impassive. Dan had kept her promise and gotten rid of Tally, but now I was alone with a man I knew intimately and also didn’t know at all.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
“Define ‘okay.’” I took a shaky step forward. “My hearing should recover, if that’s what you mean.”
Something touched my hand, something rough and wet, and I leapt back a foot before I realised Brian had crept out from under the table. My heart swelled as I crouched to kiss him on the head.
“Who’s the best boy? Do you want a steak? Do you? Or a carrot?” There might be a carrot in the break room. Every so often, Emmy’s nutritionist went on a tear and replaced the fun snacks with vegetables. “You deserve a whole truckload of carrots.”
“Someon
