Our Twisted Fate by Asa Torrance

Author:Asa Torrance [Torrance, Asa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

20

I follow my mother’s clicking footsteps outside, closing the door to the guest house behind me right before she promptly turns around, her eyes wide and expecting answers. “You do know how up in arms grandma and Nonno are going to be about this, don’t you?”

“About what?” I ask, knowing damn well what she means, but the less I play into the fact that Salem’s presence is going to be some controversy, the better. “About Salem?”

My mother raises a finger to her lips, urging me to be quiet. I’ve broken the cardinal rule of talking about someone behind their back while they’re in close proximity. I’ve said their name.

I stuff my hands into my pockets, gazing down at the bricks under my feet as I wait for her to continue.

“Don’t give me that skulking look,” she says.

I look up at her. “Okay. So what do you want me to do? She’s already here. And I wanted grandma and Nonno to meet her.”

“Is it that serious?”

“Why wouldn’t it be?”

My mother shakes her head at me before pointing that long tipped fingernail previously poised near her lips, waiting to shush me again, directly in my face. “You’d better not be up to anything.”

“By having a girlfriend?” I ask.

She’s quiet, her eyes narrowing at me. “Dinner is at seven. You can explain it then.”

She takes off without another word, leaving me standing alone outside the guest house.

Well, that went about as expected. Maybe even better. She actually pretended to like Salem which is going to make it a lot harder to change her tune later.

I go back into the house, only to find the bag of mine I just hauled to the bedroom is now out in the front room, placed indiscreetly in front of the couch. Salem regards me from the kitchen where she’s standing with one of her pensive looks, one arm cradling the other as she sips a glass of water.

“You can sleep out here,” she tells me.

“Oh, can I?” I ask sarcastically. “I’m glad I’m being told where to sleep at my own family’s estate.”

Salem raises an unamused eyebrow. “The gentlemen doth protest too much.”

“Whatever,” I say, taking a seat on the couch. “This is fine.”

“So what did she say about me?”

“Who?” I ask.

She rolls her eyes. “Seriously? Your mother.”

“Who says we were talking about you?”

“Please,” Salem says. “I’m not braindead. Why else would she ask you to go outside if whatever she had to say wasn’t about me?”

“Sounds a little self-centered if you ask me,” I counter. “To just assume everything is about you. Or that my mother would feel comfortable saying whatever she had to say in front of someone she just met.”

“You didn’t tell her I was coming.” She sets her glass down on the counter with a pointed thud and steps out of the kitchen to stand in front of me. “Did you?”

I look up at her from where I’m perched on the edge of the couch. “What, was that some kind of prerequisite of

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.