Chapter 122

Shelby chuckled. “Talk to him.”

I got a kiss on my cheek, too, before she exited as well. My sister made a lot of sense. Patrick wouldn’t want me worrying so much. He’d said so. “I wish you didn’t have all those bad thoughts up here,” he’d told me once. Instead of a tap, he’d lovingly put his lips to my forehead afterward, and that, at least for a moment, would always take a lot of them away. I loved him. I did.

Buzz.

So, why, when my phone went off again, did I let that call go to voicemail, too? I wanted to blame the aroma of barbecue that wafted in every time Rip went in or out the back door. I loved burgers, burgers and pancakes. If someone ever invented a burger on a pancake, I’d be in food heaven. Naturally, I had to ask Siri if anyone ever had.

“Here are several hamburger pancake recipes, Goose.”

“I’ll be damned.”

I decided to text the results to Patrick. I would eventually. He’d make them for me.