Page 17 of Keep My Heart
Bella folds her arms over her chest and eyes him like she doesn’t believe him.
He looks back at me. ‘You see anyone you know there?’
‘Just Lyndsay,’ I casually say.
‘You ran into Lyndsay?’ he says, like he can’t believe it. ‘Again?’
‘Yeah. She was in there getting salad dressing. It’s next to the marinade. I went down the aisle and there she was.’
‘No shit? That’s crazy.’
‘Mommy, he did it again,’ Bella says. ‘Daddy said a bad word.’
Tessa looks over at Matt. ‘Why don’t you guys go out back and talk? I cleaned off the patio furniture.’
‘Yeah, okay.’ He walks to the door that goes out back.
‘I needto go change first,’ I say. ‘I need to get out of this suit.’
‘In a minute.’ Matt opens the door. ‘Get out here.’
I follow him outside to the patio. ‘What is it?’
He gets the same goofy grin on his face that he had in high school when he’d talk about girls. ‘So what happened?’
‘When? What are you talking about?’
‘You and Lyndsay. What happened?’
‘Nothing. We just got our stuff and left.’
‘That’s it? You didn’t talk?’
I wasn’t going to tell him this, but now I want to. I need to get another opinion about what happened because I still have no idea.
‘We talked.’ I look around, making sure his girls didn’t sneak out here.
‘And? What’d she say?’
I look back at Matt. ‘I’m only telling you this because I need a second opinion. I think I’m reading meaning into something that was probably nothing.’
‘Yeah, so what is it?’
‘She was talking about Sawyer’s brewery and asked if I’d go there with her.’
‘Like on a date?’
‘I don’t know. That’s what I’m trying to figure out.’
‘What exactly did she say?’
‘She said she wanted to go check it out and then said maybe we could go together.’
‘Huh.’ He rubs his chin. ‘That kind of sounds like she was asking you out.’
‘I know, right? But then she said we’d be going as friends, but she got all flustered when she said it. She kept talking and getting more flustered so I interrupted her and told her I’d do it. I’d meet her there on Sunday.’
He nods. ‘She asked you out.’
