Chapter 71

He'd made fried chicken, potato salad, and sliced watermelon. Drake had even brought along her favorite peanut butter cookies from Sweet Tooth Bakery and a bottle of wine. A picnic. She still couldn't wrap her mind around it.

Zoe shook her head while sitting on the stone steps near the cove and gazed at the horizon. Tide was coming in, filling the small patch of beach with water. Dusk settled, casting the sky in pink and purple hues and turning the water black. Stars were beginning to wink overhead. With the rocky bluffs surrounding them, it felt like they were the only two people in existence.

Drake O'Grady definitely knew how to plan a date. She couldn't help but wonder if it was wasted on her. The future was uncertain and, let's face it, she was a sure thing. When he was ready to be intimate, she'd be there. All she could give him was now. Until she took the blood test and the results came in, they were suspended in a what-if state.