Page 46 of Rough Fantasy

She shook her head and shrugged. “I feel like someone is watching me. Weird.”

Immediately, Zeke’s alarms went off. Maura wasn’t a woman who worried about being followed on a regular basis. He knew Conner didn’t get calls in the middle of the night from Maura.

“What?”

“When we got into Ala Moana, I felt it, but it’s gone just like that. Might be my imagination.”

He looked back at Rory who was already looking around. The fact that neither he nor Rory felt it was enough to satisfy him, or it should be.

“You don’t have an imagination.”

She rolled her eyes. “Way to romance me, Zeke. The flattery is going to make me faint.”

“Maura,” he said, lowering his voice in a warning.

She patted him on the cheek. “It’s probably because I’m tired. It’s been such a long day. Even with a few cat naps, I need some rest.”

“Yeah, that’s probably it,” Rory said, but Zeke wasn’t too happy with it. He knew not to blow it out of proportion and coming to Hawaii had only been a precaution, but still, it was something he would have to think about.

“It has been a long day. Let’s head back.”

She sighed and set her head on Zeke’s shoulder as they walked. “That sounds great.”

nineteen

By the time they got home, Zeke had mostly dismissed her worries. She went to the bathroom leaving them alone.

“What’s bothering you?”

He looked at Rory. “Maura doesn’t have things like that happen to her.”

Rory shrugged. “So, she felt someone staring at her. She’s probably tired.”

Zeke thought about it and realized he might be blowing it out of proportion. How much of it had to do with their relationship?

“I see those wheels turning, so what the hell is going on in there?” Rory asked.

“Nothing.”

But he was lying. He was in love with two people who made it very hard to choose. Not that they had asked him to, but he could feel them dancing around each other trying to figure out the relationship. There was a small part of him...okay a big part of him that wanted to make it permanent. He wanted both of them forever.

That thought hit him hard. He blinked.

“Zee, are you okay?”

Rory’s concerned voice reached him. He nodded.

But he wasn’t. Shit, he had promised himself that he wouldn’t get bogged down on what would happen when they returned home, but somewhere in the back of his mind, he had been. He had been hoping that they could be together forever.

“What’s up with him?” Maura asked as she walked into the kitchen.

“Not sure.”

“We just need to get to sleep.”

Maura smiled, but it wasn’t her usual brilliant grin. Zeke realized just how exhausted she was. He patted her shoulder.

“Come on, love, let’s get to bed.”