This was no time to panic.
He spent more time away from her in his life than he had over the course of the last two, now three days. William knew he was all in and maybe it scared her, but it shouldn’t. He thought it shouldn’t at least.
It was hard to shake the feeling that she might not have the same feelings he did, or that maybe she was having second thoughts or…
Or…
He searched around for a free space to make a call in being that the store didn’t allow workers on their phones, not even the ones off duty as it made the staff look inept. It was important though, an emergency he thought. Just as William dialed Malorie’s number, Chad made eye contact with him.
Fuck it all if the man started charging the deli to tell him to end it. He stopped briefly to smile at a passing customer b
