Chapter 32.3

He held her gaze for a long moment. “Are you going to push me away?”

“You mean I haven’t already?”

“No, you haven’t. I’m harder to push than that. You’ve asked for some room, some time. Is that what you want?”

“Is time and room supposed to make things clear to me?”

“Are you saying you don’t want— You just want to call it quits between us right now?”

Amy felt the blood drain from her face. Was that what she wanted? To call it quits between them? She gave him a sad smile. “Is this your idea of giving me time?”

“I just—” He waved one arm toward her, then ran his fingers through his hair in frustration. “I said I’d call, so I called.”

“Is that what this is about? I didn’t answer my phone?”

“I think I should go out and come in again so we can start this day over.”

“Maybe you should go out and not come in again,” she muttered. “What was that?”

She sighed. “Can we drop it?” “All of it? Drop us?”

Amy wanted to scream. She could put enough pressure on herself, thank you very much. She didn’t n