Page 84 of Win Some Love Some
Nick answered on the second ring.
“Hey Nora,”his voice echoed through the speakers of the car. Yes, I’d bought a car with Bluetooth accessibility, I wasn’t a car idiot.
“Is there any chance I can tell you something without getting a lecture?”
“Considering you’re leading with that…my guess is no. What’s happening?”
“I bought a used car.”
Silence on the other end of the line.
“It’s four years old, with only forty-thousand miles. It’s off a lease, so it was well maintained and it had an excellent car report for a really great price.”
“What’s the problem then?”
“It won’t start.”
More silence. Fuck my life.
“Where are you?”
“In the parking lot of the Chicken Stack Shack just outside of Chester.”
“Go back inside the Shack and wait for me there.”
“Nick, no one is going to bother me in my car.”
“Go back inside the Shack and wait for me there,”he repeated.
“I should have called Dad,” I said, more to myself, but I was on Bluetooth.
“Maybe you should have, because he might consider you too old to spank, but I do not.”
I could not resist: “Nick…are you into that?”
“Shut up, Nora. Get out of the car, go back into the store where there are people. Wyatt and I will be there in twenty minutes.”
“Wyatt? As in your surprise half-brother Wyatt? Why is he with you?”
“Because he’s a child who apparently can’t watch hockey games by himself.”
“Hey, I heard that!”Holy shit. Wyatt Locke was at Nick’s place. Was Nick starting to accept him into his life?
“Twenty minutes, Nora.”
“Oh cool, I’m finally going to meet her. Let’s go.”
The phone call ended and I did as Nick commanded, taking my cold nuggets and fries back inside the chicken joint to wait.
At least this way I could snag an extra honey mustard sauce.
“You’re staring at me,”Wyatt said from the front passenger seat of Nick’s truck.
“I know,” I admitted without any shame. “I can’t seem to stop.”
“You a hockey fan?” he asked.
“Not at all.”
