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“You need to make sure you’re eating enough with all the ru
“Nothing. I stayed at home.”
“What about your friend you’re always talking to? She lives here, doesn’t she?”
“Diana? She went to her parents’ house yesterday.”
“In El Paso?”
“No. They moved to San Antonio a few years ago.”
“You didn’t want to go with her?”
“I’m not used to making a big stink about Thanksgiving. I’d rather get some work done and make some money.”
Was that a half smile that came over Aiden’s mouth? I’m pretty sure it was.
“I like Halloween and Christmas. That’s all,” I explained a little more in detail. Eyeing that fraction of a smile, I made myself ask the question I’d been thinking of the last few days since the nearby grocery store had begun carrying Christmas trees. “Hey, would it bother you if I put up a tree for the holidays?” And decorations, but I kept that to myself.
I had prepared myself for him to say no.
But he didn’t say no as he guided me through the parking lot toward his Range Rover, parked in the closest spot in the lot because he was one of the first people to get to the stadium. “If it makes you happy, it wouldn’t bother me.”
I snapped my head up to look at him. “Really?”
“Yeah.” He snuck me a glance. “Stop acting like you’re shocked. You really think I would tell you no?”
And suddenly, I felt like an asshole. “Maybe.”
Those brown eyes rolled. “I don’t care about Christmas, but if you want to do something, go for it. You don’t have to ask. It’s your house too.”
Looking up at him, I didn’t know where the knot in my throat came from, but it took a long time for it to go away.