His eyes turned to Eddie.
“I f**ked up, Chavez. Swear to Christ, it won’t happen again.”
Eddie nodded.
“Get home,” he said to Tex.
Tex took another look at me and then lumbered off to his El Camino.
I turned to Eddie and opened my mouth but didn’t get a word out.
“I’m spendin’ the night with you, in your bed, and I’m not arguin’ about it,” he said.
I felt relief sweep through me again.
I didn’t want to be alone tonight, no way, no how.
“Okay,” was al I said.
Chapter Ten
Eddie Thought I Was Worth It
I could swear I heard a knock at my door. Al warmth left me, my bed moved, there was the sound of clothes rustling and then I heard the door open.
“Eddie!” Mom gasped.
I burrowed deeper into the pil ows, trying to find dreamland again. I wanted to go where life was safe, normal and mundane. Where people didn’t hold knives to your throats, whisk you away against your wil or hot guys didn’t pursue you against al the laws of nature.
“Jet’s sleepin’ in today,” Eddie said quietly.
There was a hesitation while I was sure my mother mental y designed my bridesmaid dresses.
“Tel her Lavonne popped by for a surprise visit and she’s taking me to breakfast,” Mom whispered, “I won’t be back for hours,” she added meaningful y.
My mother.
I burrowed deeper into the pil ows.
Eddie didn’t answer verbal y but the door closed, there was more rustling of clothes, the bed moved and the warmth came back in the form of Eddie’s partial y na**d body fitting itself to my back.
“Was she in her chair?” I asked, my voice muffled by the pil ow.
His arms tightened around me.
“She was standing. Go back to sleep.”
I started to push up.
“She needs to take her chair. I’l have to show Lavonne how to fold it, just in case.”
Eddie pul ed me back down.
“They’l figure it out. Sleep.”
“What time is it?” I asked. “I have to get to the bank, the grocery store—”
Eddie’s hand came up and curved around my breast.