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“You’ll never guess where I am,” she answered.
From the sound of it, all was forgiven between them. I’d learned yesterday that his apologies were impossible not to forgive. I was slowly seeing, day by day, that he was both genuine and often worthy of forgiveness. Unlike some, whose hearts were like coal. Dark. Hard.
“Have you eaten?”
Beau tapped me on the shoulder and held up one hand in a question gesture.
“Us?” I wasn’t sure if she was speaking to me or Lincoln.
She nodded.
“We haven’t eaten since lunch. Not even time for a snack.” Poor guy. He endured whatever we had to do without complaining. I forgot about the snack. He was probably starving.
“Can’t we just get takeout?” Beau complained.
I heard the rumbliness of his voice but couldn’t make out the words.
“Fine.” She hung up. “He made a reservation.” She kicked out her feet. “I just want to get out of these shoes,” she moaned.
Me too, sister.
We both had on killer heels. I was ready for sweatpants and fuzzy socks.
“Where are you going for dinner?” Why had I asked? I didn’t care about one thing that had to do with Lincoln except his sister. And Pepper and Miss Adeline. And Teague.
“Where are we going, you mean?” she corrected.
“Lincoln’s coming here.” Eric spun on his stool, excitement and hope on his face.
“We’re meeting him.”
“Soon?”
“After you finish your painting,” Beau said with an amused smile.
He turned back to his work.
She leaned toward me. “I’m not telling my brother that anyone is this excited to see him,” she whispered.
“We can’t go,” I said low enough, praying Eric couldn’t hear. “We have to make the dog food for tomorrow.”
“We did that yesterday, so we could come to art class.”
Guess I wasn’t as quiet as I thought. “Right.” I didn’t want to disappoint my brother, but I didn’t want to see Lincoln. If he hugged Eric again, I might crack to the point I didn’t dislike him anymore.
I might actually like him.
Which made no sense. He wasn’t exactly charming. So when he did unexpectedly kind things, somehow that made him more endearing.
The image of him shedding his suit jacket and rolling up his sleeves popped into my mind. He’d let me boss him around without complaint. Maybe he wasn’t the best carrot peeler, but his effort and willingness had saved us time. Made life easier.
If there was one thing I’d learned over the years, it was that life was never easy.
