When they drew apart just far enough to get their breath, Allie realized she desperately needed a shower and to brush her teeth. She must look a fright. And she was starving.
“I am starving,” she confessed. The shower and all else could wait.
“We should drive over to Red’s and order everything on the breakfast menu.”
“At this hour, we might have to settle for lunch.”
Steve smiled. “I think he’ll make an exception for the two of us after what we’ve been through.”
“Sounds great.”
As he drove away from the place that would never again be her home, he said, “You need a place to stay until you decide what’s next.”
She sighed. God, she hadn’t even thought of that. “I do.”
“I know this great place in the city where there’s an extra room.”
She turned to him. “Are you serious?”
He glanced at her. “I am completely serious. That’s what friends do.”
“I guess it’s a good thing we’re friends.”
He reached out and took her hand in his and rested it on the console. “We are friends, and I want very much to explore the possibility of more.”
She squeezed his hand. “I’m all in for further exploration.”
Maybe she’d ignored her social life all this time because somewhere deep down she had known the right one was coming.
Allie couldn’t wait to see what happened next.
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