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“Good.” I kiss her forehead. “Are you going to be OK? I need to get going.”
She nods. “Yeah.”
I pull her into a hug. She settles against me as her arms come up and grip my shirt. “You can stay here as long as you need.”
“Thank you.”
I kiss the top of her head. “Now, go rest. The game isn’t until later and Kylie will come to get you. And afterward, we should talk about the other day.”
She nods, her face turning pink. “Oh, and I made you more of my mom’s tea.” I hand her a cup, and she smiles at me.
“You’re almost as good of a nurse as she is.”
I laugh. “I don’t know about that, but I’ll take what I can get.”
Chapter Twenty-One
Tabitha
“So, you like my brother?”
“Wait, what?” My eyes go wide at Kylie’s question. I’ve spent the last thirty minutes watching Kent and pondering his comment about talking. Does he regret kissing me? Do I regret kissing him? What were we thinking? What the hell am I doing here? How did my life suddenly get even more complicated in less than two weeks?
Kylie gives me a knowing look. “I wasn’t born yesterday.”
I bite my lip. “I mean…we just met. He’s really nice and…”
“Come on, you don’t have to worry about me telling him. I’m like Fort Knox.”
I glance over at Kent on the pitcher’s mound. Shit, I didn’t even know that’s what it was called until last week. He’s slowly changing my life, seeping into it like water filling in the crevices between rocks.
I turn back to Kylie who isn’t watching the game at all but instead is focused on me.
“Yeah, I guess I do like him.”
She grins. “Good because he really, really likes you.”
I laugh. Why does this feel like middle school?
“You think?”
She nods. “I can tell. I’ve been following that fucker around my whole life. He doesn’t know it, but I know him better than any of the others. Hell, I know him better than he knows himself.” She pauses, considering her next words. “I won’t admit it if you ever say anything, but…I look up to him, always have.”
I smile at her sincerity. “Your secret is safe with me. I just wasn’t looking for a relationship right now. I sort of had a bad one recently and was taking some time to self-reflect, I guess.”
“Oh. Well, Kent’s a really good guy, like seriously the best.”
“I can tell. He’s so…real. I didn’t expect that when I met him.”
Kylie shrugs. “Trust me, Di and Lanie beat him into submission. He never had a chance to be anything but a good guy.”
I giggle. “I hear sisters can be wicked.”
“True story. But big brothers can also be total pricks.”
“Now, that I can cheers to,” I say, raising my cup of beer.
Kylie laughs. “What’s your brother like?”
