She looked at him, horrified. “Of course not! I said this was a friend, didn’t I?”
She was perfectly serious. He could see it in her eyes. He actually laughed. “All right. Good.”
And then it hit him.
“Waaait a minute. It’s your friend from that place, isn’t it? That clinic you want me to go to, that quack shack.”
“It isn’t a clinic. It’s a resource center for veterans.”
“I don’t need any help. I’m not broken.”
“Nobody said you were broken. But there’s nothing wrong with accepting help when it’s offered. It’s not a sign of weakness.”
“Is this why you wanted to drive me in your car and not take separate vehicles? Because you knew if I had my truck I’d bail.”
She gave him that sweet look of hers, with her chin tucked low and her eyebrows raised.
“All you have to do is meet her,” she said.
“Aha! So it is a she!”
“Oh my gosh, you are so paranoid. Relax. I told you, I’m not trying to set you up. She’s married with a kid, okay? They’re new in the area and want to meet people.”
“Well, I’m not buddying up to her.”
“I don’t expect you to. That’s what the rest of the family will be there for. You can sit there as silent as a tree stump for all I care. All you have to do is eat.”
His stomach growled again. Something was gnawing away in there, right in that spot midway between his belly button and his breastbone.
He hoped that thing would settle down and cooperate.
Copyright © 2021 by Brandi Midkiff
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ISBN-13: 9781488074639
Caught by the Cowboy Dad
Copyright © 2021 by Melinda Wooten
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