upset and...”
“I know.” Eric scrubbed at the back of his neck. “My timing was crap. I was just so glad to see her and Eddy, you know?”
Emilio nodded. “I understand.” He held out Eric’s shirt and jacket. “I, ah, I do not think she will be in tomorrow.”
The way the older man said it made Eric’s stomach drop. “Of course not,” he quickly agreed. “She’s worn ragged and she’ll want to make sure the kids are fully on the mend.” He shrugged into his jacket. “But tell her I hope to see her on Tuesday, okay?”
Emilio nodded, but he didn’t look convinced and Eric’s stomach dropped another two notches.
He’d just found Sofia and her family.
He wasn’t going to walk away from them all.
* * *
Sofia didn’t come to work on Monday, which Eric expected. She also didn’t show on Tuesday. “Her son was released from the hospital,” he told Meryl and Steve when they came in to work on Tuesday. Sofia wasn’t the only one who needed to recover from the weekend.
“Thank goodness for that,” Steve said.
“Let us know if there’s anything we can do to help,” Meryl added.
But Eric just nodded and smiled and, when he got back to his desk, ordered two dozen roses delivered to Sofia’s house.
She didn’t come to work on Wednesday, either.
By Thursday, he was feeling frantic. Where was she? She hadn’t quit. He was pretty sure he’d remember that. And it wasn’t like Sofia to hide. Back when they’d been kids...
Eric slumped behind his desk. They weren’t kids anymore. They couldn’t go back to that easy friendship. He couldn’t be just friends with her anymore. Or even friends with benefits.
He wanted to be with her through good and bad. He wanted to see her children grow up. He wanted children of his own. God, to see Sofia’s body change and grow with his child—the longing was physically painful.
He wanted everything. With her—only with her—he could have it.
By God, he was Eric Jenner.
He was going to get it.
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