Love Easy by Roe Valentine

Author:Roe Valentine [Valentine, Roe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, roaring twenties, prohibition
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2014-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

After two days with her mother, Norma was dying to return to Chicago. Taking care of her mother was a brutal undertaking she wouldn’t wish on her worst enemy—not that she had any. What made it most unbearable was they hadn’t spoken since that horrible dinner.

But when Friday morning came around and Norma was putting on her coat to catch the commuter train, her mother finally broke the brutal silence. “I think there is still hope for you. Perhaps not me, but for you there is,” her mother said in the sweetest voice, a voice Norma remembered as a little girl.

“Pardon?” Norma wasn’t sure if she had heard correctly.

Her mother propped herself against the open door, knee bent so the toes of her bad foot were off the floor and looked at Norma with the gentlest motherly expression. “I think your fella is a lot closer than you think.”

“My fella?”

Only one word existed to describe the smile on her mother’s face. Beautiful. It reminded Norma of past days when she was a little girl and her mother was her angel on earth. Norma’s mother was a goddess and perfect in every way with blue eyes shining like life was blown into her from some unknown source—a heavenly source. She looked…hopeful.

“Your fella. I suspect you’ve met him already with the way you’ve been trotting about here like a ball of nerves. Only a man can make a woman that nervous.” She would know.

Norma felt like she had been run over by the commuter train. How could she respond? Was it that obvious? Could Mother really see how Mr. Chapel had gotten to her? Norma would never call Mr. Chapel her fella. Never.

He would never be her fella or anything remotely close to being hers in any way. Was he capable of being anyone’s fella?

That question weighed on her, made her chest tight. An irrational thought, but she didn’t like the idea of another woman claiming him as her fella. Gosh, I should stop it. She told herself she wouldn’t think of him that way anymore, but it seemed impossible. After all, Mr. Chapel probably already forgot what transpired between them anyway.

Norma shut her eyes briefly, opening them again to her mother’s soul searching gaze. “I…I…”

“I know, darling…” Her mother’s voice soothed her. “You’ll get used to it. Please take care of yourself in the city. It’s dangerous for a working woman like you. And please eat.”

“Yes, Mother.” She struggled for a complete sentence. As much as she wanted to tell her mother she was wrong about meeting a man, she couldn’t. In fact, she had an epiphany of her own, and she couldn’t hide from it anymore.

She wanted Mr. Chapel. Henry. Not as a boss, but as a man.

The breath caught in her throat. It was true. She breathed out a breath, releasing all the pent-up energy it took to maintain a lie. She wanted him. Fact. She wanted him more every second. Then her heart ached, because she could never have him.

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