Chapter 56

• Beau didn’t think he could move when she said yes. Thought he’d stay on that hill forever, knees sunk in warm grass, eyes stuck on the way her grin cracked wide and her breath caught every time her thumb brushed the diamond he’d slipped on her finger.
• But Sadie Bug had other plans.
• She pushed him back slow, laughin’ all wrecked while he stumbled to his boots. He thought she’d wanna curl up quiet under the new porch — swing squealin’, her nose tucked up under his jaw like she’d done a hundred times. But she just grabbed his hand and tugged him toward the truck like the world was burnin’ down behind her.