Page 131 of Star Crossed
“I will crawl over this table to get out,” Wyatt countered, casting a glare from Clay to Jules as if they’d both just betrayed him. “’Cause I sure ain’t sitting here listening to you lecture me after all the drama I’ve gone through with y’all. It’s my life. That’s what you said, right?My life.Now get up, Jules.”
“It is your life,” Jules had to reluctantly agree. “But the difference between you and me is—”
“What’s the difference?” Wyatt barked incredulously. “I am just dying to hear this.”
“Romeo took me with him,” Jules finished, feeling guilty about the way Wyatt flinched when she said it. “She left you, and if you go over there like it’s not a big thing, I’ll—”
Wyatt slid on the bench away from Jules and then brought his long legs up, fighting for room before he stood up. The busy diner fell silent as the sheriff of Garnet County stepped on the table, then rose to his full height. He ducked low as he moved past the booth to the table Chuito, Romeo, and Tino were sitting at, and then jumped down. He brushed at his uniform and turned to leave without saying another word.
“For a town without a nightlife it seems like lotsa interesting shit happens around here,” Tino observed. “Never a dull moment in Garnet.”
Jules watched Wyatt walking to the front doors of the diner and said, “Thanks for paying us back for that favor, Terry.”
“Maybe someone ought to tell him to start wearing a bulletproof vest,” Terry mused.
Jules turned to glare at him. “That’s not funny.”
“I wasn’t trying to be funny.” Terry shrugged. “Seems like anytime someone in the old Conner house falls in love, it ends with one of y’all getting shot.”
Jules put a hand to her head, feeling a headache forming. “Oh God.”
“Hey, it’s okay.” Romeo put an arm around her, pulling her close and kissing the top of her head. “Getting shotwasn’thow it ended. We’re together and healthy now.” Romeo put a big hand on her stomach, and one of the babies kicked him back as if sensing his father on the other side. “This is where it ended, Juliet.”
“Wyatt’s a different story.” Jules looked up at him and shook her head. “There’s just no way for it to work out with them.”
“If we can have a happy ending,” Romeo started, giving her a handsome smile, “anyone can.”
The End
