Cross Your Heart (True Heart Series Book 4) by Layce Gardner & Saxon Bennett

Author:Layce Gardner & Saxon Bennett [Gardner, Layce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-29T23:00:00+00:00

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Cece was sitting up in bed with a book. Ruth thought Cece too old for story time, but Cece didn’t like change. She wanted everything to stay the same. Any change to her routine brought on a temper tantrum.

“All right, now, where were we?” Ruth said. She took the book from Cece and sat in the rocking chair.

Cece giggled. “You know where.” She pointed to the bookmark.

“What if I didn’t put it in the right place?” Ruth teased.

“I could still find where we are.” Cece pointed to her head. “I have a good memory.”

“Just like an elephant,” Ruth said. She wished Cece didn’t have such a good memory. Kids needed to get past their childhood traumas. But she couldn’t explain to an eight-year-old that the past was gone, the future hadn’t happened yet and the present was the only thing you could work with. Ruth did her best to live by that nugget of truth, but as the saying goes, easier said than done.

Cece eased back on her pillow and looked at her mother expectantly. Ruth began to read. She stopped when they got to the end of the chapter and slapped the book shut, saying, “That’s it for tonight, kiddo.”

Usually, Cece would beg for more and Ruth would relent by starting the next chapter, reading two pages and then stopping. But tonight, Cece raised up on one elbow, squinted one eye at Ruth and asked, “Mommy, did you go on a date?”

“What’s makes you say that?” Ruth said in an effort to buy time. Her chest constricted. She didn’t know if she had the energy for this right now.

“Because you put on perfume and got fixed up nice,” Cece answered.

“I went to dinner with friends,” Ruth countered lamely.

“You were nervous, too.” Cece stared at her, those blue eyes seeming to search Ruth’s face for the truth. “Why were you nervous?”

Starting a relationship with Tamika by lying to her daughter wasn’t a good idea. Ruth decided to tell her the truth. “It was a dinner date with friends and… one special friend was there.”

Cece’s brow furrowed. “A girlfriend?”

“Not yet, but maybe. How would you feel about that?”

“I don’t know,” Cece said. “I’ll sleep on it.” She turned over, facing away from Ruth.

“Good night, sweetie,” Ruth said. Cece didn’t answer. Ruth clicked off the light and left the room. Well, that didn’t go as -well as she would’ve liked, she thought, making her way to her own bedroom.

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