Robin wanted to verbalize how she felt about Shane. She needed to. If she said I love you too would she have to stay here? She hadn’t looked at her schedule, but she had two weeks from today before she had to be at the Roundy Ranch—in Round Rock. Two hours away.
I love you tooShe couldn’t commute like that and work ten-hour days.
But could she leave Shane here without telling him she loved him? Why couldn’t she get her voice to work?
“Oh, you must want the dog food,” Shane said, providing her with an easy way out of her stupid silence.
“Yes, dog food,” she said, her voice thick and hardly her own. She waited for him to collect the twenty-five-pound bag of food they’d stopped to buy and carry it up the steps to her front door.
“I gotta say,” he said, dropping the bag in the corner of t
