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Little Runner
No, because I’m afraid every time a text comes through from you that I want to reach through the screen to touch you.
Me
Believe me, gorgeous, the feeling is mutual. Have a good day at work. Be safe.
Tossing my phone to my bed beside me, I flung myself back on the mattress. I crammed the heels of my hands into my eyes and wondered exactly what it was I thought I was doing. What I hoped to achieve.
Wondering most when I needed to put an end to this thing. Exactly when we’d hit that dead end.
The one thing I knew was I had to stop it before I got her tangled in the consequences of who I was.
Shame gusted in from the sacred place where I kept it shored, and that gutting failure that had changed the course of my life throbbed from within. Reminding me of the commitment I’d made.
I needed to remember that was the one I was charged to protect at all costs.
Apparently, there was no heeding the warnings I’d given myself. Not when our texts continued through our days.
Between clients.
Before I picked up Nolan from the sitter.
Sending them quick then tucking my phone away, over-eager to get to her answers and returned questions that would be waiting for me when she got to them on her breaks.
It was the girl who was pushing us deeper right then. Wantingto know me the way I’d invited her to do. I wanted to reveal every element that made me up, even though I tried to keep things as vague as I could, toeing a line that couldn’t be crossed.
Me
What’s the one place you’ve always wanted to go but never have been?
Little Runner
Greece. Have you always lived in Moonlit Ridge?
Me
No.
Little Runner
Where did you grow up?
Me
LA.
Little Runner
Why did you leave?
Me
To give Nolan a better life.
It was at least the truth even though there were a thousand secrets wound in it.
It was the text that came through hours later that nearly dropped me to my knees, blipping through right after I’d pulled into the garage with Nolan chattering away from the backseat.
