Chapter 123

Patrick: Hey, handsome. We’ll make them next Thursday. You in just an apron…

I got a screenful of drooling emojis.

Goose: How’s work going?

Patrick: Almost closing time. Can I call? Hearing your voice is like music to me still.

Goose: Sure.

I picked up the phone after half a ring. Patrick was already singing, sweetly butchering the melody to “Here Comes the Bride” with made up lyrics. “Here come the grooms, Patrick and Goose. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, moose.”

I laughed.

“I really should have thought that through,” he said.

“It’s a shame my name doesn’t rhyme with camel.”

“Right? Is my voice music, at least?”

More like nails on a chalkboard to everyone else, but to me, “Absolute perfection,” I told him.

“You’re sweet when you lie. I wonder if I’ll sing better as an angel, like Jefferson and Calvin. ‘Voice like an angel’ is a thing, right? Do they all sing well?”

“I’ll ask next time I see them.”