Lonely

Wyatt grins as he shuts down his computer for the night. “At least you’ve given me a second chance to make up for leaving you high and dry the last time. How can I say no?”

He stands up from his chair and grabs his keys. He can see the weariness in Katie, even though she’s trying hard to hide it. He knows he can’t even imagine what she must be feeling like. Though things didn’t quite turn out the way he’d planned in the past, right now, he simply wanted to do all he could to help ease her stress. “I’ll take you home as long as I can buy you a quick supper on the way. I’m starving and I don’t want to make two trips.”

Wyatt aims for the door, gesturing with his head for Katie to follow him.


Carson almost grins, but not quite, at Misty’s comment. As she flops down beside him, he shrugs. “Just a file of some contacts of TJY’s. I got bored. Thought I’d see where in the world TJY had fingers. Pretty far-reaching, some of them…Alaska…Tennessee.”

He points to one of the printouts. “This lists names by category, like, doctors, lawyers, that sort of thing. Kinda interesting….” He stifles a yawn. “If you like reading names, that is.”

He glances at his watch, stalling for extra time spent with company. “You…heading for supper?”


Con hangs up the phone with Jamie and sighs. It was strange…though functioning around each other, he and Jamie hadn’t spent all that much doing actually doing things with each other and yet…knowing she was a half a days’ drive away somehow made it feel lonely back here.

Con ambles to his bedroom, finally flopping into bed, though not falling asleep. His mind was too busy…