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Оглавление“After working here, and then at the diner, you get to do homework duty at night?” Matt asked.
Callie glanced up and nodded, as if perplexed. “Of course.”
He’d have given anything to have a mother like that, a mother who was invested in her kid. He’d tackled his difficulties in school on his own and failed miserably. “That’s amazing, Callie.”
She glanced up. Their gazes met.
She went still, her eyes on his.
And she read his gaze, his thoughts. It was there in her slight intake of breath, the way she blinked, the quick flex of fingers as if realization just struck.
“I’ve got to reload the nail guns,” she said, breaking the connection. But that was good, right? Neither one of them had the time or energy to put into whatever was flaring between them, so it was best to ignore it.
But there was no way in this world he’d be able to ignore Callie for the coming weeks, and a big part of him didn’t want to try.
And that spelled trouble for both of them.
