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“I don’t want to meet any bedmate. I want to meet soulmates only. Those are the rules. Sage knows that.”
And there went his jaw one more time.
Sage gave him an elbow. “I warned you.”
“You did, but I guess it’s turning out better than I thought it would.”
She leaned over and kissed him. “Nonna, you’re embarrassing Knox. He’s not used to loud family holidays.”
He’d told her that it’d always been him and his father and grandparents or him and his brother and mother. No one more. Unless his mother had a live-in boyfriend at that time.
“Then he better get used to it,” Nonna said. “Now I’ve got work to do, I’ll be in soon and we can watch the game.”
“Then it gets loud,” she said. “Thankfully the Giants aren’t playing.”
He pulled Sage next to his side and whispered, “Thanks for inviting me.”
“I wouldn’t have wanted you to be alone, but more than that, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere other than with you.”
He’d known for a solid month he was in love with Sage but was finding it harder and harder to keep those words to himself and wondered how much longer he could pull it off.
21
THINKING OF YOU
Two weeks later, Knox was working in the second condo in Sage’s building. There was a massive snowstorm coming and they might be snowed in and lose power this weekend.
In his mind, he wanted him and Sage to have a little winter retreat and was going to bring it up when he talked to her in a few hours.
When his phone rang in his pocket, he pulled it out to see Blaze calling him.
That never happened.
He put down the screwdriver, then answered. “Hey, Blaze. What’s up?”
“Knox, I hate to call.”
“Don’t worry about it. What’s going on?”
“Well, my buddy Mark and I flew into Boston yesterday afternoon to see a Celtics knockout game. It was his birthday gift from his parents and his father couldn’t go last minute.”
“Okay,” he said. “Are you still in Boston?” Which was about two hours from here with traffic. If he was lucky.
“Yeah,” Blaze said. “Because of the storm, our flights kept getting pushed off and now they are canceled. We can’t get a hotel room. They are all booked. No one will rent us a car either because we aren’t twenty-five. We are just stuck in the airport and don’t know for how long. My dad’s in Texas right now.”
“Shit,” he said. “Okay, I’ll come get you. Is there any way you can get an Uber or taxi to get you out of Logan and at least head my way? I can meet you and, hopefully, it will prevent me from trying to get into the city, which I’m sure is going to be crazy.”
“Hang on,” Blaze said and put his phone down. He heard muffled noises in the background and assumed Blaze was talking to his friend through the airport buzz going around. “Mark is going to go out and see if he can find a taxi or Uber. I think a lot of people are just stuck here and won’t leave knowing they can’t find a place.”
“Do me a favor,” he said. “I'm going to finish up the job I’m at right now. Should be another twenty minutes and then I’m going to hit the road and head in your direction. If I’ve got to get to Logan I will, but keep trying to get out of there and I’ll reroute to get to you any way I can.”
“Will do,” Blaze said. “Thanks. I appreciate this and am sorry to put you out.”
“Don’t be sorry,” he said. “I’m glad you called.”
Knox finished up what he was doing, called one of his men over and told him what was going on. He asked them to take care of what they could and said they’d do the rest on Monday.
When he was walking out of the building ten minutes later, Blaze called him again. “Any luck?” he asked.
