A Reason To Win by Jade Royal

Author:Jade Royal [Royal, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jade Royal
Published: 2022-08-23T18:30:00+00:00

MARCY

We barely made it into Desmond’s mother’s room when his phone rang.

“Sorry,” he mouthed before he stepped out into the hall.

I didn’t know whether to go in or walk back out to the waiting area until he was done.

“Come in, child.” Her voice startled me.

“Uh… yes.” I walked fully into the room.

“Well, aren’t you pretty,” Ms. Jaxson said.

“Thank you.”

“What’s your ethnicity?”

I see where the brothers got their blunt demeanor. “Native and African American.”

“Which is which?”

“My father’s parents were from two different tribes. My mother is a very fair-skinned black woman, much like myself.”

“Beautiful outcome. We’re Italian.” She struggled to sit up, and I went over to help. “That was Desmond, right?”

“Yes, he got a call and had to run out.”

She shook her head in disbelief. “That boy is more focused on work than enjoying life. Everybody thinks Drex is the intense one. He is, in his own way, but it’s Desmond that works all the time. Always going going going…”

She was right. Drex was the analytical one, but it was Desmond that slept for two hours a night and worked for the rest of it.

“How long have the two of you been seeing each other?”

“Not long at all. And we’re just friends.”

“Well, friend, that after-sex glow doesn’t scream, friend. Besides, Desmond never brings his friends to see me.”

“Oh, I can explain that. We have to go somewhere after here, and he didn’t want to miss visiting you.”

“Is that what he told you?” Ms. Jaxson chuckled. “The boys come and visit me all different times of the night. They don’t follow the rules.”

“I see,” I didn’t know what to say. I wasn’t ready for a meet the parent's thing. We were casual. There wasn’t a relationship in the works. Friends? Maybe. Desmond didn’t seem like he wanted this to grow. I liked him a lot, but I didn’t think he wanted more.

“What’s your name?”

“I’m sorry, Ms. Jaxson, I should have introduced myself. I’m Marcy.”

She chuckled some more. “You’re her.”

“Her?”

“The woman, my son, paid a boatload of money to spend time with. He told me.”

“Okay…” Unsure where this was going, I stayed silent for her to explain.

“You also want that property down on the riverfront. What are you going to do with it?”

I hesitated. She was in here because of cancer. Did I want to explain that my goal was to beat it when she was in stage four?

“Spit it out, Marcy. I don’t bite.”

“I’m building a cancer center.”

“And what’s so special about it?” She seemed intrigued.

“Its purpose is to cure the side effects and eventually be able to treat it.”

“So, it’s a study center?”

“Eh, no. There will be treatments available there. You can do anything that you do at any other cancer center. Treatments, care, support, physicians, and all. But there is a department solely dedicated to making the patient feel good, too.”

“How long will it take to build?”

“My timeline is fourteen months.”

“I feel that you’re going to be good for Desmond. He needs your style of life.”

“My style? I don’t know if I understand that.

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