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Macy: Freaking amazing.
Everly: Oh. My. Gawd. You’re in love. You’re going to leave me and move to L.A.!
Macy: I’m not. You’re so dramatic
Everly: No. I can see it now. Know what we need to do?
Macy: I have no idea
Everly: Go see a psychic! They’ll tell us what’s going to happen
Macy: Seriously, Ev? I don’t need a psychic
Everly: Right. BC you already know you’re leaving me! OMG. Do I need to find a new roommate?
Macy: Stop being so dramatic. And this isn’t about you. What should I do?
Everly: Screw his brains out. He’s. So. Hot.
Macy: Why did I come to you for advice?
Everly: I have no idea. But I totes want all the details tonight. You working?
Macy: Of course I’m working.
Everly: I’ll come home right after school. We can eat a quick dinner and you can give me all the dirty details.
Macy: See you later
Well, that convo didn’t go as I’d hoped. Everly had no advice to offer me. I don’t know why I thought she would; after all, I was the one she always came to when she had problems. Why had I expected her to have any wisdom? I mean, beyond visiting a psychic, which seemed like a colossal waste of time and money.
Maybe I should take a page out of her book, follow her advice. To put it a lot less crudely than she had—just relax and have fun. See where it went. Stop playing it safe. Put myself out there.
But why did that feel so damn scary?
16
LIAM
Ispent every day at the general store and every night at the Rowdy, making sure I was there by closing time to walk Macy home. I managed to talk her into spending the night with me most of the time, too, which was an added bonus. I stocked my bathroom with all her toiletries to make life easier. Anything I could do to steal more time with her.
We fell into a good rhythm, and I didn’t want anything to happen that would shake things up and throw us off kilter. I loved being with her: she was so genuine, so gorgeous. Her smile alone shot my heart rate up at least ten percent, I swear. I couldn’t even bring myself to think about going back to L.A.
Not without her.
But that seemed like a tough fucking sell.
She’d told me herself she’d never traveled north of the Mason-Dixon. California was going to seem like an entirely different planet to her. And what about Everly? They’d never been apart, and Macy was more like a mom than a sister to her.
How, exactly, was this going to work? Because Peachtree Grove wasn’t in my long-term plans, despite what my aunt hoped.
And now I had a real-life deadline. Benji needed an answer. The opportunity with his family’s winery could crack open a whole new market for me. Sure, the dating app was great, but the winery app would move me in a different direction, one with tons of opportunity.
In California. Away from Macy.
“Liam, honey, so glad you could come to dinner,” Gigi said, hugging me tight. “Thanks so much for watching over the store.”
“Totally unnecessary,” Pops grumbled from his seat at the head of the table.
