Page 21 of A SEAL’s Vigilant Heart

Chapter Six

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Sophia wiped her sweaty palms against the on her jean-covered thighs.

Billy grabbed her hand. “It’s going to be all right.”

“It’d be nice if something was,” Sophia mumbled. She couldn’t sleep and most nights Mason would come home and walk around the house like he’d lost his best friend. But the few times she tried to broach it with him, he’d tease her about their upcoming wedding and ask her about her red dress. Normally she’d have put her foot down and demanded answers, but she was too stressed about today.

“Sophia, why now? Why days before your wedding? I don’t understand?”

“I don’t quite get it either, Billy.”

Sophia fished the key to Frannie and Tony’s house out of her jean’s pocket. They were over at the food bank, and Frannie had told her the boxes were in a back bedroom she used for storage. She had warned the Andersons they were probably going to have to hunt for them since they would be buried under other ‘crap’ as she put it.

“I asked her if she wanted to be here when we went to her house but she really didn’t seem to care.”

“Of course, she didn’t, Soph. It isn’t like we’re going to jump on her beds.” Sophia giggled.

“Jump on her beds? Where do you come up with this stuff?”

“It’s why you love me.” Billy bumped her shoulder as they entered the house.

The back bedroom was easy to find.

“She wasn’t kidding about it being full of crap. How much stuff does one woman need?” Billy asked.

“Oh hush up and start looking. I marked all sides of the boxes, ‘Anderson’.”

“Thank God.”

Billy made quick work of moving boxes. When Sophia went in to help, he immediately told her to stop.

“I’ve got this. Just keep your eyes peeled.”

“Billy, I’m more than capable of lifting boxes.”

“I didn’t say you weren’t. But I would feel better if you’d let me do this.”

“You have been spending far too much time with Mason.”

After ten minutes she saw the boxes.

“There they are. Behind the fake Christmas tree.”

He was able to stack the two and maneuver his way to the door.

“Are you sure I can’t carry one to the van?” Sophia asked.

Billy lifted an eyebrow in response. Yep, he had definitely spent too much time with those damn SEALs, she thought with a laugh.

They headed over to the food bank to drop off the key.

“Did you find everything all right?” Frannie asked.

When Sophia didn’t immediately answer, Billy stepped in. “We found the boxes just fine.”

“Sophia, are you going to be all right?”