Only for You by Barb Curtis

Author:Barb Curtis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2021-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Emily scrubbed her old apartment’s bathroom floor on her hands and knees. It was so small, it just seemed easier. She felt tired but accomplished. Her cleaning spree was nearly finished. All she had left to do was wipe down the oven, which she’d sprayed with cleaner a couple of hours ago, and give all the floors one last mop.

The tenant taking her old place wouldn’t be in town until the middle of the month, so she was able to take her time getting it cleaned up while the landlord worked on a few repairs. Thankfully, Harlow had gladly taken a few extra shifts this week. Emily needed the time to get settled in the new place. She’d yet to start unpacking anything but the bare necessities since the week before, when she and Tim had lugged her big items down the hall.

Hauling boxes and huffing and puffing to lift furniture was not the way she’d imagined spending quality one-on-one time with Tim all these years, but Emily wasn’t complaining. Besides the heavy lifting, he’d made for delicious eye candy, with his wavy hair tamed by a badass bandanna. They made a lot of progress before he was convinced she could handle the rest.

In order to get a solid night of rest that first night, she’d partly set up her new bedroom. Tim had helped her center the bed along the longest brick wall in the room and gave her a hand making up the bed. Who knew draping sheets together would spark so much desire to mess them back up? Tim was meticulous about tucking in the corners. He’d joked that there were just some things about the Navy that he’d never totally shake.

Then they’d pushed all the boxes labeled BEDROOM to one end, so they wouldn’t be in her way while she picked away at unpacking.

Her mom had called earlier to see how the move was going and to report that they still had not heard back on Nana’s tests. It had been three weeks since the biopsy. Emily tossed the scrub brush she’d used on the bathroom floor into a garbage bag and checked her phone. Three missed calls from Leyna.

Strange.

She was about to call her back when she heard loud rapping on the door.

She whipped it open to find Leyna standing there, out of breath. “Did you mop this floor yet?”

“No. What’s going on? I just saw all the calls I missed from you. Is everything okay?”

Leyna breezed past Emily and tromped through to the living room, leaving a trail from her boots. “Wow. Your stuff is all gone.” She perched on the wide windowsill, since there was nowhere else to sit. “Please tell me you haven’t checked social media yet today.”

Emily closed the door slowly and leaned against the door instead of proceeding into the empty room. “No, I haven’t been online at all. Why?”

Leyna’s shoulders lowered when she blew out a long breath. “I don’t want you to get upset, but you’re going to see it eventually anyway.

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