5
VAUGHN
Gaping after the irate brunette, I released a shaky breath as she stormed across the yard and climbed into a silver sedan. When its engine started, I dropped my gaze to the ruled, 3x5 cardstock in my hand with her name on it and her home address, plus a phone number underneath. It was as if she’d been writing study notes for a test at school and had paused to make herself a makeshift business card, just for me.
For some reason, that made my stomach knot with unease, as if I’d interrupted the natural order of her life.
But hadn’t I, though? If I hadn’t watched her feed that damn squirrel, my brother wouldn’t have thought I’d grown some raging crush and focused his attention on her, to begin with, and she wouldn’t be in this situation now.
“Jesus.”
I ran my thumb over the drie
