Hope & a Canoe by Michele M. Reynolds

Author:Michele M. Reynolds [Reynolds, Michele M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Lesbian, Romance, Contemporary
Amazon: B00RDOWDME
Goodreads: 24044344
Publisher: Michele M. Reynolds
Published: 2014-12-22T23:00:00+00:00

16

Gracie and Jeremy insisted that Tember stay with them until the pain in her hand lessened. The pain medication the hospital prescribed for Tember made her irritable and unable to sleep, but Gracie was kind and patient with her. It was an unspoken rule that they would not talk about Tember’s freak out or where their relationship was heading.

Jeremy and Gracie waited hand and foot on Tember. They made her meals and brought her anything she wanted. Tember felt as though she had entered an alternate universe. She not only had people waiting on her, but also people who cared about her and she about them.

Her grandmother texted her only once to tell her she would be gone a few more days. Her grandmother’s text was a rude awakening that this life with Gracie and Jeremy would not last forever.

At night, Gracie and Tember held each other, caressing, kissing, and talking. Gracie and Tember were too bashful to take their physical relationship further with Jeremy in the next room.

Three days after the hospital visit, Gracie, Jeremy, and Tember sat around the RV counter eating breakfast.

“I was thinking today we could go clean up your grandparents’ RV,” Jeremy said.

“Oh yeah,” Gracie said. “I totally forgot that we left it a mess.”

“Me too,” Tember said.

Jeremy teased, “That’s what happens when you’re in love.”

“Dad,” Gracie warned.

Tember chuckled. “I was seeing red when I did all that. I don’t think I’ve never lost it like I did that day. Was the place a mess?”

“Yes,” Gracie said. “There were DVDs, scratch-off tickets, and blood everywhere.”

“Oh no. I’m dead. Dead,” Tember said as she buried her head in her arms on the kitchen island.

“We can clean it up, kiddo,” Jeremy said.

“Yeah,” Gracie said. “When’s your grandmother coming back?”

“She texted me yesterday and said three or four days,” Tember mumbled with her head still in her arms.

“We can go right now,” Jeremy offered.

“Umm, I have things to do,” Gracie said. “And then Tember and I have plans tonight.”

“We do?” Tember asked with a smile on her face.

“A surprise,” Gracie answered without looking at Tember. She feared that looking at her would reveal the surprise.

Jeremy answered, “Then tomorrow. That’ll give me time to stop by a hardware store and pick up that cool blood clean-up stuff. You know you put powder on it and then you scrape it up?”

“Dad, I think that only works if the blood is still wet,” Gracie said.

“Oh damn,” Jeremy said. “Well, we can still go clean up tomorrow. What do you think, Tem?”

“Tomorrow sounds good,” Tember answered. The thought of stepping foot into the RV again made her skin crawl.

Gracie took Jeremy’s truck into town on a mission to surprise Tember. In the meantime, Tember and Jeremy decided to spend the day going on a short hike on a trail that traveled up a mountain by the campground.

“Phew,” Jeremy said. “I thought the camp guide said that this was supposed to be non-strenuous.”

“I know, right?” Tember said.

Jeremy glanced over at her. “How are you doing? It looks like you haven’t even broken a sweat.

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