“I didn’t think you would, but also, I care about you, not just Petal.” He squeezed my fingers. “When Shay said she needed me, I didn’t ask about the baby. I felt like s**t when Olivia told me the baby was fine, because it wasn’t until she said it that I even remembered the baby. I was scared something had happened to you. You know that, right?” I thought about the question.
Did I know that? Or did I think that Petal was the only reason he stuck around?
If I was honest with myself, it was the latter. He and I weren’t in a good place before Petal made her presence known. And now we’d come so far, but did I trust it? Could I let myself?
I wanted to trust it. I pulled him down closer to me, dragged in a deep lungful of his scent, grounding myself there against his neck.
“Okay.” I whispere
