Love Me Forever by Muriel Jensen

Author:Muriel Jensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

“I HAVE TO CALL your mother.” Sandy had finished a full order of Swedish pancakes with lingonberry butter, and dug in her purse for her cell phone. Food made her functional, if not necessarily better. “She has my girls. I should let her know where I am.”

Hunter downed the last of a glass of orange juice. They’d been seated in a quiet corner of the restaurant, but the midmorning coffee break rush was now working toward them, table by table. He pulled out his wallet. “Okay. I’ll wait for you at the door.”

“Hi, Stella. It’s Sandy.” She reached for the last few sips of her coffee while Stella exclaimed at the sound of her voice.

“Sandy, I’m so glad you’re all right! I heard you’d gone up the river, were in the big house, were getting tattoos on your knuckles!” Stella paused for breath and said more seriously, “Your mom told me what happened. Where are you?”

Why was her mother able to tell everyone else what was happening and bypass her own daughter?

“Hunter picked me up,” Sandy replied. “He took me to breakfast, and now insists we’re going to the beach.”

“Well, you should take the day off. Just try to put all worries aside and...let the ocean renew you.”

She tried to imagine what would renew her. There wasn’t much.

“Sandy, try to remember that children don’t always know what goes on with their parents. Give them some latitude.”

She’d like to give them both whatever latitude ran through Abu Dhabi.

“I have a repairman coming at four this afternoon, so I’ll pick up the girls and take them to my house. I’ll fix dinner for all of us, how would that be? So when the two of you are finished with your day, just drive over to my place and you won’t have to do a thing but drink a little wine and eat. The girls will be fine. I bought the new Planes movie related to the Cars thing. Should be good.”

“Thank you, Stella.”

“It’s what I do. See you tonight.”

Sandy put her phone in her purse and walked over to the counter where Hunter was accepting a plastic bag from the clerk. He handed the bag to Sandy as he went to the door and held it open for her. In a small vestibule with a bench and an ATM, Sandy put her purse down and reached into the bag. She pulled out a soft purple hooded sweatshirt with Astoria emblazoned on it in white.

She wanted to scold him for being kind, but that didn’t make sense and she was too heartbroken, anyway. “Thank you,” she said simply.

“It’ll be chilly at the beach.” He pointed out the window at the gray clouds. “You’ve had goose bumps on your arms since I picked you up.”

She ripped the tags off the sweatshirt and put her arms inside the sleeves. When she emerged from the neck, he was studying her.

The man she was dealing with today was a little different from the Hunter she knew.

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