Page 160 of Fly's Path

Running Together…Apart

Fly

Dropping Sheri off yesterday after our date just about killed me. It was perfect. Quite literally the best date ever. She likes riding on my bike.

More than that…She loves riding on my bike. I need to look into building a bike she can sleep on, because I have the feeling it isn’t going to be long before she starts trying to take a nap back there.

Then she started opening up to me…that had to be the best part. I can’t wait to talk to her this morning…or run with her again.

Too bad this morning’s run is going to be virtual again. She has wedding stuff through the day and I need to check in at the clubhouse. Something I haven’t done in days.

Having Vandal back in my ear all the time has been bad enough. The two of them are soppy.

Time to message Sheri.

Fly

Good morning, My Royal Highness. Date number two was the best so far.

Sheri

Good morning, My Prince. It was. Though now I’m tempted to call you, My Butterfly Prince. Thank you for sharing so much of your strength with me.

Me sharing. She’s the one who shared her strength.

Fly

I loved getting to know you. I’m already looking into a new bike for us. Something for you to nap on.

Sheri

Tease.

Who’s teasing? I’m dead serious. Is that her pulling back? Am I pushing too hard, too fast? She took the jacket, knowing what it meant.

Fly

Always and never.

Sheri

Outside.

I flip her over to my earbud. Sheri is in one ear. Vandal is in the other, but thankfully, he’s still asleep, and I won’t have to try to follow two conversations at once. It’s not impossible. It just takes more of my attention, and I want all of that on Sheri. “Good morning, My Royal Highness.”

“How do you do the cheerful thing every morning? I wanted to climb back into bed.”

“You know, you’re allowed to climb back into bed.” My bed, preferably.

“There’s no time for that. Almost right after my run, we have wedding stuff to do. Aren’t people arriving there soon?”

“Not until tomorrow.” But I really need to get there and help out. Also, I need to hunt down Bishop and see what he found out about you.

If she was anywhere else at all in the world, I’d be losing my mind right about now. But she’s safe until I can figure this out. Which probably won’t be until after the wedding.

“Is it really going to be as wild as Mindy seems to think?”

Probably. “There will just be a lot more people than you would expect, and a few of them will indulge a bit more than you’d expect.”