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Frowning, I looked at hi me out?"

He nodded "Yup Told you I don’t do this world anyed "Not et you, eventually For now, start walking"

"Are you serious?"

"Corocery store wasn’t so I usually did I had people who did that for me So when I walked into the Whole Foods, I was a little lost I wanted urt, but I also wanted to walk around and pick out things forcooped up insideme crazy I needed to break free frohts stayed locked on Gannon whenever I was alone

In order to preoccupyI needed to do I had never actually done it before, and honestly, all the choices were overwhel on a plane to Vegas It was too busy taking this all in

The choices of organic vegetables had , as did the fruit I chose a few I knew I liked and a couple I wanted to try out I thought about taking up cooking That would be a great way to distract myself Especially if I burned the house dohich was a possibility

I skipped the nuts, because although they were delicious and healthy, they hadto put into ue with urt options were more than I could have hoped for I spentto be fine I bought enough to keep the town in yogurt if they came for a visit Which wouldn’t happen, because I’d probably kick them out

I had turned to head down the cereal aisle when I spotted athe corner I recognized him The familiar color of his hair pulled into a man bun The beard His jeans were fitted just like I remembered, and he moved like Gannon It made no sense that he would be here in Rosemary Beach at the Whole Foods store, but I had seen hiht there in front of the cereal and took off running to the aisle five ron to catch hi legs ate up the ground fast, and I are that people were staring at me, but I didn’t care

When I reached the aisle, it was e in her cart No ined it That would ive up yet, so I ran down the aisle and then proceeded to check all the other aisles

"Excuseshelves stopped my frantic search, and I realized I’d been at it for a while now Gannon was not in the Whole Foods, and I was losing my mind

I shook my head no and went back to find the cart I’d deserted The cereal aisle no longer appealed to urt and a few fruits and veggies and checked out The cashier kept glancing up at uessed she’d seenthe place like a madwo as and find hi to stay in Rosemary Beach and hallucinate But I’d been so sure I had seen him How could youa shirt I had seen before This one had been long-sleeved and gray Was it normal for your head to create stuff like this?

The entire drive back to the house, I replayed what I had seen and tried to tell myself I wasn’t crazy There had to have been a man who reseurt filled up o one and grabbed a spoon It was tietet that if I never saw hiain made my chest ache I didn’t want to think about it But it was true He’d be a , and I would have to find a way to move on There had to be soo A few days with a uy I’d ever been in an actual relationship with God, I wished I’d neverlad he had foundNow I knehat it was and that it was real

The light frolow over the dark room When his bodyI ake and this was hi, and he was here Even in the living room The TV was silent, and I knew I had fallen asleep with the volus that couldas today it had limpse of him I moaned as his hand slid up my shirt, and I stretched my body, anxious for more

"I didn’t tell you that you couldlilt to it that I wasn’t used to hearing "But it pleases hshorts Showing off every seductive inch of your shape"

Oh OK I didn’t open my eyes yet I enjoyed the closeness of him When he ithinstead of two He made me feel safe and wanted in a way I had never been before