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When they got inside, a classy older woman said, “Sage. It’s so nice to see you.”
“Hi, Mona,” she said. “This is Knox Bradford. Knox, Mona Wright. We thought we’d come in for dinner tonight.”
“I’m always glad to see familiar faces,” Mona said while she shook his hand. “Let me bring you to a little quiet spot.”
He noticed it was fairly busy for a Thursday night. But it was only mid-September and there were probably still a lot of people on the water stopping in or on vacation.
They were left alone and told a server would be over shortly.
“I guess you have no problem with people knowing we are dating.”
He hoped that wasn’t presumptuous on his part to say dating rather than a date.
“I don’t have a problem with it,” she said. “Do you?”
“No,” he said. “Not like I’ve got too many people to tell or keep it from.”
She frowned as if it just occurred to her. “I have a lot of people who tend to get into my business, but many know about our few dates already. Trace doesn’t. He’ll find out now I’m sure. Which is fine. I actually told Violet the other day because I didn’t want her to find out from someone else.”
“Does this mean we’ve got more dates lined up?” he asked.
“Of course,” she said. “And I was asked if you were going to the wedding with me on Saturday, but I didn’t ask you because I already replied I was going alone. Plus, I know what it’s like to go to a wedding and not know anyone.”
“Not a problem,” he said. He would have gone but wouldn’t have wanted to. He wasn’t one for putting a suit on though had one in his closet.
“But I don’t have plans tomorrow or Sunday,” she said. “If you’re around.”
“I am,” he said. “If I wasn’t, then I’d make sure I was.”
She smiled at him and it was the one he remembered twenty years ago that made him move forward when everything in his brain said she’d never give him the time of day.
But she had.
They’d talked.
They were friends.
They’d never be anything else though once his mother yanked him out of the school.
But here they were twenty years later and he had to tell himself that maybe his father was right.
Things happen for a reason.
9
A BIG HIT
Saturday afternoon, Sage was getting ready for Heather’s wedding and once she was done looked at the clock and saw she had about twenty minutes before she had to leave.
It was the best time to call her mother. It’d give her a limit on how long they’d stay on the phone. She could maybe get information on Knox and pass some on at the same time.
She picked her phone up and hit the button. Her mother answered on the third ring. “I’m not bothering you am I?” she asked.
“No,” her mother said. “I’m in between appointments.”
“I thought you didn’t work much on Saturdays anymore,” she said.
Her mother had decided to cut back her hours at her hair salon so her parents could enjoy more time together.
