A Loaded Question by Danica Winters

Author:Danica Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-11-05T21:43:38+00:00

Chapter Eleven

At her mother’s house a little while later, Kate learned her mom had been calling every relative in her phone since she had found out about her husband’s death. She told Kate she wanted to notify as many people as possible and to ask them not to speak to reporters or officials. But Kate knew the real reason for the busywork. It was so her mother could concentrate on a task instead of the pain that they were all feeling.

Her sister was flying in from Denver on the afternoon flight and would be touching down tonight. She hadn’t taken the news well.

But then she couldn’t blame her. She had gone to pieces when she learned about her father’s death. She shouldn’t have gone straight over to Troy’s residence, but it was the only thing she could think to do after she had gotten over her initial shock.

She glanced over at Troy, who was busy making hot tea in the kitchen, complete with a tray of cream, sugar and lemon. She didn’t even know her mother had lemons in the house and yet Troy had somehow found them.

Troy really was remarkable. He was unexpectedly chivalrous, kind and surprisingly open for a man who declared himself antisocial. If she hadn’t known better or he hadn’t told her, she would have actually thought he almost liked the general public. If she told him that, he would have some kind of snarky rebuttal.

He made his way out of the kitchen to them carrying the tray of tea and set it on her mother’s marble end table. Her mother barely noticed.

In the past, her mother had been overly protective of the Carrara marble table specially imported from Italy. It was one of her most prized possessions, and the fact that she didn’t seem to care now that someone put something on it that could potentially mar the gleaming white-and-gray surface was more shocking to Kate than her mother’s sudden manic need to reach out to family.

“Troy, why don’t you set that over here,” she said, pointing toward the alabaster dining table in the adjoining room.

He picked up the tea set and followed her out of the living room, like an obedient member of her mother’s household staff.

“Are you sure she’s going to be okay?” Troy asked, motioning toward her mother.

In all honesty, she wasn’t sure. Her mother had been through a lot with her breast cancer and forced retirement from the company, but she hadn’t had to face that alone. Everyone in the family had surrounded her with love and understanding. Kate had even made a point of driving her mom to each and every one of her chemo appointments. Her mother had never really thanked her, but she hadn’t expected her to.

Once her mother’s cancer had gone into remission, Kate had assumed things would go back to normal and she would go back to work for the company, but she had become a woman who luncheoned.

It was as if her mother had decided

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