Page 66 of Promise Yule Be Mine
“It’s midnight.”
She rolled her eyes and looped her hand around mine. “Were you really going to leave without your bags?” she asked after looking around me.
“I wasn’t thinking clearly. I was guilty and confused.”
“Well, good thing I came here then.”
“How did you find me, by the way?”
She stopped and stared with a way too smug look for her own good.
“Do you really have to ask after all I’ve orchestrated to get you and Kody to look beyond your noses?”
Fair point.
Fair point indeed.
Jenna was a superwoman.
And apparently a pretty decent matchmaker, one I’d say rivaled Christmas Falls’ local matchmaker I’d heard people rave about during my short time here. Nick, I believed his name was.
“I might be happy but I’m still annoyed with you. You had me questioning my wedding planning skills.”
“Ah, you’ll live.”
I glared at her but truthfully, I couldn’t stay annoyed. Not after everything she’d said and all she’d done on instinct alone.
“Oh, one more thing. Do you like Kody?”
“Why do you think I ran away?”
She put her hands up and brushed me off. “Hey, Kody asked me to make sure. I’m just making sure.”
“Well, I more than like him. I may be falling in love with him,” I admitted and boy did it feel liberating to say.
“Please, honeybun. You’re not falling. You fell already. Hard. You’re at the pit of this mine called love. Now let’s go throw Kody in with you.”
21
KODY
The next hour was torture. I couldn’t stop going through every nightmare scenario in my head and imagining the worst of outcomes.
What if Nova didn’t believe Jenna? What if he didn’t care? What if this whole situation gave him the ick?
The sliver of hope I’d felt after talking to Jenna was diminishing a little bit more with each passing second until there was none left and any possible happiness I’d manage to picture faded away like burned film in a projector.
And the worst part, I already felt like I couldn’t lose him. It didn’t matter that until a moment ago I couldn’t imagine backing down from the promise I’d made to Jenna, those moments since that I’d thought a life with Kody was possible had built a nest around my heart that would haunt me forever.
It was scary how much I needed him. How much I cared about him. How much I missed him already and I’d barely spent any time with him.
What if he didn’t feel the same? What if he was scared of how fast I’d fallen for him? What if, despite everything, he still didn’t want to give me a chance.
By the time I heard the key in the lock I’d given up. I couldn’t imagine any positive outcome. I was already nursing a broken heart.
But then Jenna opened the door and Nova walked in, and that sliver of hope I thought had died out was reborn like a phoenix rising from its ashes.
“Hey,” he said.
