My Perfect Gift Is You by Christine L'Amour

Author:Christine L'Amour [L'Amour, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-09T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Dee made lunch absent-mindedly, mind away at the work she still had to do this afternoon. Getting that client from Blake ended up being a major hassle; everything the man had done wrong was now on Dee’s shoulders. She knew she had come out on top once everything was said and done, and this was work she enjoyed—she was good at it—so it didn’t bother her much. It just occupied her thoughts.

Jamie was in his room playing something or other. Dee looked down at the bacon she was frying and hoped she didn’t get distracted to the point of burning it.

Her thoughts about work and the bacon were interrupted by the ringing of her phone. Dee answered it and eyed the food, wondering who on Earth was calling her right now.

“Dee Gomez speaking,” Dee said.

“Hey, Dee,” came a familiar voice.

Dee blinked in surprise. She took her phone from her ear and there it was on her caller’s ID: her sister Faith, calling her out of nowhere.

“Faith,” she greeted, putting the phone back to her ear. “You haven’t called in ages. Did something happen?”

“No, of course not… hello to you too,” her sister said softly, in that voice she had when she knew she had to apologize for something but really, really didn’t want to. Dee narrowed her eyes at the bacon in front of her. If Faith was here to tell her she had done something…

“You’re making that voice,” Dee said bluntly. “If you need my help with something—”

“It’s about your visit, Dee,” Faith interrupted with an annoyed sigh. “Okay? We all saw, but every single other person in this house is a coward,” she said in a harsh tone that told Dee their mother and other sister were definitely listening to this conversation. “So… I wanted to apologize. You know. For how we acted. Jamie looked awful when he left.”

“Ah,” Dee said. “Yes. You did act poorly.”

There was a pause. Faith sighed again.

“Dee, can you try to at least pretend not to be so socially inept?”

“I accept your apology,” Dee said, feeling tired. She knew they’d just do this kind of thing again; Faith was apologizing for upsetting Jamie, not for her opinions on Catarina or how she hadn’t spoken up against their mother when she commented on Dee or her ex-wife.

Better to accept the apology and be done with it.

“I know you don’t mean that,” Faith argued. “I’m here being an adult and apologizing for our behavior. Will you at least tell my nephew I called?”

“An apology is useless without a change of behavior, which you have not had in years,” Dee told her blandly. She flipped her bacon and thought about fixing up some salad. “You refuse to change your opinion of my ex-wife—”

“You mean the bitch who took you from us and then left you?”

Dee’s knuckles went white around her phone.

“Catarina didn’t take me from anyone,” Dee told her sister firmly, red in the face with anger. “I left so we could build a life in the best place we could think, and then we had our differences.

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