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“Would you do that?” I asked.
“Write off my kid because they knocked someone up?”
“No, I mean. If someone made a mistake, would you forgive them?”
“I guess it depends on what the mistake is, but yeah, it would have to be pretty bad for me not to forgive someone.”
Now. Now is the time to tell her.
“Tavy, I—”
Her phone rang, stopping my admittance in its tracks.
“Hold on.” She dug her cell out of her bag. “It’s my boss. I have to take this.”
She answered the call and I planned on telling her the truth as soon as she hung up the phone.
“Sure, no problem at all. Okay, bye.” She dropped her cell in her lap. “Sorry about that. There’s a patient that needs a live-in nurse for about a week. The patient lives an hour away. I leave tomorrow.”
“Oh. Okay.”
“Probably for the best. Give my dad some time to cool down.”
“Yeah. Probably.”
“Better get in there and pack,” she said.
I reached across the car and hugged her. “Safe drive tomorrow.”
“Thanks. And thanks for coming with me tonight.”
I pulled back. “What are friends for?”
She reached for the door handle. “He was being weird tonight.”
“Was he?”
“Yeah. Before I told him about his father, I mean. What the hell was the deal about you wanting a salad versus a burger?”
“I couldn’t even begin to guess,” I said.
Tavy got out of the car and closed the door. She waved before heading into her apartment building. I waited until I knew she was safely inside and then I drove home.
I parked underneath a streetlamp, grabbed my purse, and then locked the car. I turned the corner into the back alley of the bakery, my heart tripping in a fear.
A man leaned against the wall, his body cast in shadow.
I grappled with my purse, wondering why the hell I hadn’t thought to walk with my pepper spray in hand.
The shadow came toward me and I opened my mouth to scream when a patch of moonlight suddenly revealed his identity.
Chapter 34
Smoke came into the light.
The scream died on my lips, but I snapped at him anyway. “What the hell? You scared the shit out of me!”
“I’m sorry,” he said. “That wasn’t my intention.”
