CALLA
I don’t stay at the door. The second Ryder disappears back into the diner, I step away. My pulse is still uneven as I make my way back to the terrace. I sit and for a second, I just breathe because that’s what I need now.
I was done for the day, done with him, with this, with whatever that moment had been. So why did I stop? It wasn’t just them being there, running into them, explaining, standing there while Brina looks at me like I have done something wrong, and Miles asks questions I don’t want to answer.
My thoughts trip over themselves, and I press my lips together. It was something else too. My gaze drops to the two milkshake glasses still sitting on the table. He forgot to carry them I guess.
I shouldn’t even be thinking about it but he just reached over to mine with that f
