She also gave some serious thought to booking a plane
ticket to Topeka. She hadn’t taken time off work, since she
really couldn’t after taking holidays just a month ago, but she
did have the weekend. If Quinn was going to break up with
her, then at least if Dallas went, she could do it in person. Or
hopefully, Dallas could talk Quinn out of it. Reassure her. Be
there for her. Show her that she was loved.
Dallas sat up abruptly. Yes. Loved.
She’d been in love once. With Quinn. It was easy for
her now to realize that she’d always been in love with Quinn.
There was never really a time when it stopped. Quinn had
always been there in her heart, and now there was a renewal of
those feelings. Dallas didn’t want to let her go. Quinn
obviously was looking far into the future and that was scaring
her and giving her doubts. If Dallas went to Topeka, maybe
that would help reassure Quinn that she wasn’t going
anywhere. That she was serious, and that she would do
whatever it took to be with her.
Even if that meant packing up her current life and
shifting it all back to where everything started.
Chapter 26
Quinn
Saturdays were supposed to be happy. It was the day that
everyone liked. Even if someone worked on Saturday, they
were still usually pretty cheerful. Saturdays were built for
good moods. Saturdays used to be Quinn’s favorite day of the
week.
She’d spent most of the morning thinking about how she
should have been in Tampa. She kept going back and forth
between feeling really shitty about her decision and being