TorrieAs soon as I’m down the block and around the corner, the tears come.
I wipe them away angrily.
God, why do I have to be such a fool?
That look in Gavin’s eyes, I know that look. It’s the one I’m feeling too.
That I don’t want to spend just breakfast with him. I want to spend the whole day with him and the day after that too. I want weeks by his side.
The thought terrifies me, as do the possibilities of its opposite. What if he knows? What if he’s just toying with me, trying to use me for all I’m worth, trying to mess with the Piccolos through me, trying to ruin all of us? What if he knows?
My phone rings. It’s him. Gavin.
I don’t answer.
If he doesn’t know, then it’s not me he cares for, anyway. It’s the woman he met in that bar – the devil-may-care seductress who doesn’t hav
