Chapter 353

Later on that night, they lay in bed, wrapped up in each other. After coming in from the cold, they'd both taken showers, called to check on Walker, and eaten a dinner of frozen pizza and ice cream while watching a stupid reality show on TV. Mandy relaxed against Dalton's chest and he was content to play with the hair spread out against his pectoral muscles.

"Do you think we should go pick him up?" she worried, as she grabbed Dalton's fingers one by one, tapping them with the tips of her fingers.

"Walker?" His voice was deep with the relaxation neither one had been able to have in so long, and maybe a little sleepiness as well.

She pushed herself up on her elbow, jostling his eyelids from where they had been almost closed. "Yeah, I mean I feel bad that we've just kind of pawned him off."

He closed the gap between them, pulling her back down onto his chest. "We didn't pawn him off. He's with his grandparents, where I'm sure he's having the time of his life," he forced her chin u