Page 79 of Inevitable
His mouth kicked up to smirk at me. “I missed you, Peaches.”
I squinted at him, not sure my exhaustion had me imagining it. “What?”
He crossed his arms over his chest. “I missed you.”
Something in the way he said it, standing there so full of confidence and being so candid had me wanting to jump over the big hurdle that was our past.
If he could be open and transparent, what reason did we have to hold on to things that caused us pain before?
Running made me honest. It made me see reality clearly. “I missed you too.”
As I said it, his mouth dropped a little and then he snapped it back up.
He backed away as if what I’d said was enough for him. “Let me know the next time you’re going to run outside looking that good. Can’t have you going alone.”
It was my turn to be surprised. I glanced down at myself.
When I glanced back up, he was jogging away from me but turned to wink.
My heartbeat picked up and that, I told myself, was the reason I had to hold on to the pain we had been through before. If I didn’t, I’d fall headfirst in love with the person who’d made me scared of it in the first place.
