Chapter 57

• Darcy stepped out onto the back porch to empty the watering can. I thrust my hands in my pockets and watched her. Setting the watering can in a little storage closet near the door, she dusted off her hands, turned, and caught me staring again.
• “What?” she asked, her smile anxious and hesitant now.
• I searched her face, looked her in the eyes. There was so much I wanted to say, but what was the point? I was leaving in a few hours, and then… then, this was never going to happen again. “Can you come here, please?”