Broken Dreams (Broken 2)

I smiled back and asked, “For what?”

“For making my best friend the happiest I’ve ever seen him in my life.”

I felt the tears building in my eyes. “I should say the same thing to you.”

He let out a small laugh. “You have—after you threatened to cut off my balls if I ever hurt her in any way.”

I winked at Layton and said, “That still holds true.” I blew him a kiss good-bye and made my way over to the truck. I had never been so excited in my life.

Okay, that’s a lie.

I had felt more excited when Reed and I went to the doctor the other day. We’d had our first sonogram, and we’d seen our little peanut on the screen. I would never forget Reed’s reaction for as long as I live. The moment I’d seen the tear slide down his cheek, I’d fallen even more in love with him.

I hopped in the truck, and Reed gave m

e that panty-melting crooked smile of his.

“Ready, Mrs. Moore?”

I nodded. “Ready, Mr. Moore!”

“Reed? What are you so nervous about?” Courtney asked as she reached over and touched my knee.

Instantly, the electricity shot through my body. I was tempted to ask Layton if he still felt like that with Whitley, but I wasn’t in the mood to have him call me a pussy.

“I’m not nervous,” I said as I attempted to clear the frog in my throat.

What if she doesn’t like it? What if she didn’t really mean it when she mentioned it that day? Shit! I should have asked her about this.

I pulled over about two miles from the house.

“What’s wrong? Why are you pulling over?” Court asked.

I looked at her and smiled. I pointed to the glove box and said, “Baby, will you open that up?”

She looked at me and smiled as she turned and opened the glove box.

There was a silk scarf in there that I had bought in one of the boutiques in Tahoe.

“Will you take out that scarf?”

She pulled it out and looked at me. “Whose is this?”

I could see the hurt in her eyes. Shit. She thinks it belongs to another girl. Thank God I kept the tag with the boutique’s name on it. “I bought it for you in Tahoe. I was going to wait to give it to you at Christmas, but…”

She gave me that smile of hers that just melted my heart.

There isn’t a damn thing I wouldn’t do for her.

“May I see it?” I asked as I smiled at her.

She slowly handed it to me as I unbuckled my seat belt and winked at her. “I need you to turn around, angel.”

“Um…why?” she asked.

“I need to blindfold you. There is something I want to surprise you with, and I don’t want you to see it.”

She bit down on her lower lip and let out a giggle. I chuckled at how easy it was to make this girl giddy. She turned around, and I wrapped the scarf around her eyes, snugly tying it.