A Curvy Girl for the Cadet: A Perfect Fit Novella by Sugar Jamison

Author:Sugar Jamison [Jamison, Sugar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Holidays, Romance, Contemporary, Military, Romantic Comedy
Amazon: B00Y78YBT2
Published: 2015-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Two days later Daisy was bent over in her garden pulling weeds. Aubrey was by her side. She was supposed to be weeding too, but she was sitting there twirling what they pulled between her fingers. She was more company for Daisy than help, but Daisy was glad that Aubrey had volunteered to assist her that day. School had just ended and they had a little free time before camp started. Daisy wanted to use this short vacation to spend as much time with Aubrey as possible. She still hadn’t wanted her to go to sleepaway camp, but she couldn’t think of a good reason to keep her home. Except that she would miss her. But she didn’t want to be one of those mothers who clipped her kid’s wings.

Her parents may have been inattentive and permissive, but they never denied Daisy the opportunity to try new things. They let her spend six months in Argentina when she was in high school, and take guitar, drum, and saxophone lessons. They hadn’t been close, but sometimes she really missed them. Just having parents. Someone to call mom and dad and spend holidays with. Right now it was just she and Aubrey. They had Loretta, of course, and the rest of Danny’s family, but she had felt odd at their family functions these past few times. They looked at her with sadness in their eyes. She was there. Danny wasn’t. She served as a reminder to them each time she showed up.

“Mama?”

“Yes, Cookie?”

“This is a flower, right?”

Daisy looked over to see Aubrey studying a sprig of white alyssum. “Yes, baby, it is.”

“It’s pretty. Why is it a weed? Why do some flowers get to be flowers and others weeds?”

Daisy suppressed a smile. Sweet Aubrey. So thoughtful. So sensitive. She seemed sad that they had to pull all those flowers up. That’s where she differed from Jane. Jane wasn’t as sweet. She wasn’t so sensitive or thoughtful. She had very little time to stop and appreciate the beauty around her. Daisy was glad she was raising Aubrey to see all that. Because life was much sadder without beautiful things. “Weeds are flowers you didn’t plant. We have to pull these or they’ll take over the garden.”

They didn’t have a garden at their old place with Danny. They lived in a townhouse that was landscaped once a week. Danny didn’t want her to have to worry about the upkeep of a house while he was away. She hadn’t minded, but she agreed to make him happy. She had compromised so much to make him happy. She had been thinking about him a lot lately. More than usual. She blamed Clayton. She wanted to put both men in the same category. Both injured veterans. Both with demons. Both good men in different ways.

It wasn’t fair to compare them. And she had been doing that. She felt very different about each of them. Danny was her friend. A man who it took a long time to fall in love with.

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