“Hardcore masochism.”

Her lips twitch. “Field.”

“It…” I give half a shrug with my good shoulder. “It by no means actually occurred to me to destroy them.”

She stares at me and I see her working the phrases via each bullshit detector she has. “Is that true?”

“It’s half-true,” I say. “I don’t know. I assume it was the one factor I had that jogged my memory of our marriage. As temporary and tumultuous because it was. We didn’t precisely alternate rings.”

Caleb stares at me in silent pause and, for the primary time, I can’t determine which course the wheels are handing over her head. “Boxcar…” She wets her lips, hesitating on her phrases. “I—”

“Wait—” I maintain up a hand and rise off the stool. “Earlier than you do this factor I do know you’re about to do, I must say one thing first.”

She goes quiet and I shift just a little nearer to her.

“I’ve spent the final two years working from you as a result of I didn’t need to lose you — and sure, I do know that makes completely no logical sense, however that’s the reality. That wasn’t truthful to you and what you wished and I’m sorry.” I push the envelope over to her. “No extra video games, Caleb Fawn. I like you. I at all times have. Ever for the reason that second I noticed you and it didn’t have something to do with the wild hallucinations introduced on by excessive dehydration and warmth publicity.” She chuckles softly and my coronary heart swells. “You’re it for me… however I get it if that doesn’t go each methods and I’m ready to allow you to go if that’s what you need.”

“Is that every one?” she asks, purple flooding her cheeks.

“Yeah.” I smile and shift a half step again. “Go forward, then. Lay it on me.”

She pauses as her lips curl. “Properly, earlier than that sudden interruption, I used to be going to say…” She swipes the envelope off the counter, sliding it quick out from below my fingers. “I like you.”

Hearth shoots down my backbone.

The L-word.

Caleb Fawn simply stated the precise L-word and she or he stated it to me.

“However…?” I ask.

She smiles wider. “I like you, Boxcar, and it has nothing to do with how badass you appeared holding my revolver. Although, I’d be mendacity if I stated it didn’t flip me on just a little bit.”

I chortle. “Okay…” I take an unsteady breath. “So, what does that imply?”

“It signifies that you went actually above and past for me. You could possibly simply have ignored that decision the Harts made and ditched me, however you didn’t. The person who does that deserves a heck of much more than a second likelihood, I believe.”

“You may be proper.”

“However…”

I deflate. “So shut…”

“However the ball lies in your courtroom, Field. It’s as much as you to resolve if a lady like me deserves a second or a 3rd or perhaps a fourth likelihood.”

There’s a insecurity in her voice as if I’m about to reject her outright and kick her to the proverbial curb. Amusing completely bounces at the back of my throat. To even assume that I’m able to rejecting her is downright ludicrous.

“Is that even a query?” I ask.

She shrugs. “I might rephrase it as one.”

“Don’t trouble. I wouldn’t be right here now if each excessive and low with you wasn’t price it, Cal.”

“You’re fairly the glutton for punishment.”

“Your chunk at all times tickled just a little,” I joke. “Properly, you realize the place I stand. What say you, Caleb Fawn? Will you keep my spouse?”

Her fingers grip the envelope just a little tighter as she scans the ground. She bends down and grabs the rubbish bag filled with shitty cameras by my toes and tosses the papers inside.

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