Chapter 9
I sat around the house in my pajamas again. Elsie had invited me to join them for a movie, but I’d declined—I couldn’t tag along all the time. They needed their space.
And maybe so did I. I wondered what to do with my evening. I’d tried to write tonight. But trying was never enough. I had an idea I wanted to put to paper, but no words for it. It would come.
But not tonight.
Truth was, I wanted only one thing—to call Davinder. I’d found out things about him—about his past mostly—that afternoon, after I’d dropped Fay at my sister’s. And these revelations changed everything. I couldn’t stop thinking about what Elsie had said. This week, she’d asked Dayton about his older brother, curious to find out what Davinder was really like.
Those very things were the reason I felt so inst
