Win Me Over (Cowboys of Crested Butte 5) - Page 85

“You’re a gift from heaven,” Tristan murmured.

After Liv closed the bedroom door, she looked up at the ceiling. “Did you send her to me, Mom? Cuz I’ll tell you, I don’t know what I’d do without her right now.”

Liv stuck her head back in the door. “By the way, if you have a minute, you might want to give Bullet a call. I think he’s close to a breakdown.”

Tristan’s eyes opened wide.

“I’m kidding, but he is very anxious to speak with you.”

“Thank you,” she said as Liv closed the door.

She hit the callback button, but Bullet’s phone rang a couple of times and then went straight to voicemail. Instead of leaving him a message, she’d just call back after she got out of the shower.

Bullet grabbed his phone when he climbed out of the shower and saw he’d missed a call from Tristan. When he called back, she didn’t answer. “Shit!”

With the towel slung around his waist, he went into his bedroom to get dressed. His parents and Gram had taken Pearl and Grey to the zoo, today, since it was sunny and supposed to stay warm all day. He would’ve gone along, but he knew he’d be lousy company until he talked to her.

When his phone buzzed again, Bullet jumped on it before it rang twice. “Hello?”

“Bullet

, it’s Tristan.”

“Hi,” he sighed. “Damn, it’s good to hear your voice.”

“Yours too. I’m sorry I didn’t call you back last night.”

“I’d tell you it’s okay, but I haven’t gotten a whole lot of sleep the last two nights, hopin’ you’d call.”

“God, Bullet, I’m so sorry.”

“Don’t be. Just tell me how you are now.”

Tristan told him what happened with her father, and about the surgery that was scheduled for the following day.

“What’s the recovery like?” he asked.

“He’ll be in the hospital for a few days. And then, once he’s home, he’ll have rehab. I’m not sure for how long.”

Bullet didn’t know what to say. He couldn’t exactly ask her when she might be back in Colorado.

All he could come up with was, “I miss you.”

“I miss you, too.”

If Pearl weren’t here with him, he’d hop on a plane and go be with her, but he hardly had any time with his little girl as it was. Soon he’d be on the road and away from Grey too. And it wasn’t like he could bring them to New York with him.

“I want you to know, if I could, I’d be there.”

“I know, and I appreciate it. You have a lot on your plate right now, Bullet, and so do I.”

“So, no idea when we might see each other again?”

“I’m sorry, but no.”

He wanted to keep talking to her, but he had no idea what else to say. Everything he wanted to say seemed wrong given her dad’s health and his…life.

“Well, bye for now, then, but you call me every chance you get. Okay?”

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