Imperfect Love: Saint Sex (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Alice Bello

Author:Alice Bello [Bello, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2018-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Home Again…

Lucy

I grew up in Aurora, Illinois, about an hour’s drive from downtown Chicago.

The moment I passed the city limits I started to feel less like a nerve-wracked personal assistant trying to get away from her problems and more like the girl who grew up wanting to rule the world.

Or at least the one who knew what she wanted.

For the last two years I’d been in denial about what I wanted. Now I needed to re-think my life.

I climbed out of my car and walked up to the house I’d grown up in, walking in the front door and heading straight back to the kitchen—I could smell snickerdoodle cookies baking.

Mom always knew when I was going to show up.

It was one of her super powers.

“Lucy! What a surprise.” Mom was just pulling the tray of fresh baked cookies out of the oven. She settled them on a cooling rack on the kitchen table and then came over and hugged me.

“Hi, mom… snickerdoodles, huh?”

She kissed my cheek. “I just suddenly had such a craving.” She held me out at arm’s length and gave me a scrutinizing stare. “This isn’t the weekend. Don’t you have to work tomorrow?”

I shrugged and pretended to be mesmerized by the cookies. “I took some time off.”

“Hmmm…” Mom set a copy of Commons Magazine down right beside the cooling cookies, Dante staring up at me as sexy as all get out. “I can well see why.”

I looked up at her and just burst into tears.

“Come here, baby girl.” She held her arms out and I went right into them, letting her hold me while hot tears fell from my eyes.

After some embarrassing sobbing, and a stream of consciousness mumble-fest where I had no idea what I was saying, I finally said, “I don’t know what to do.”

“I know… I know…” Mom stroked my hair and then handed me a paper towel. “Here, blow.”

I always snot up when I cry, as if water works weren’t embarrassing enough, then my noise would get in on the action.

I blew my nose a few non-too-dainty times.

I threw away the paper towel and then snagged a cookie.

Don’t judge, I stress eat.

Mom walked over and took hold of my chin, looking me in the eye.

“Ready for the mom talk?”

I swallowed the cookie I’d been chewing. “If it’s like the sex talk of 2013… probably not.” I’d never been so traumatized in my life than when mom had given me the talk… with a banana condom application prop, a comprehensive birth control display—including a dental dam—and a slide show about various sexually transmitted diseases.

Mom shook her head and then nodded to the magazine. “No. That’s my only prop.”

I sighed. “Thank god.”

“I’m just wondering, Lucy-bean,”—Uhg! Not my childhood nickname—“What took you so long?”

I blinked. “What?”

She gave me her no-nonsense single-mom look. “I’ve seen you two together five times since you took that job, and I’ve known you were going to end up together from the beginning.”

I stared at her, my forehead starting to cramp from scowling.

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