Push by Sadie Rose

Author:Sadie Rose [Rose, Sadie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Publisher: Sadie Rose
Published: 2021-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

When I agreed to use Roman’s car, I imagined myself driving his black sedan across the bay bridge fiddling with the radio stations trying to find some good music to occupy my time on the drive. I didn’t expect the reality of saying yes to his car meant being driven in his Maybach with Miller in tow. On the drive over I thought of all the ways I was going to have to explain to my mother the car, the driver/bodyguard and my new boyfriend. The kicker was going to explain that my new boyfriend was also my boss and landlord. That was going to go over real good.

Quicker than I would have thought, I was standing in my mother’s front yard admiring the handiwork we had accomplished together last summer. We bought, measured, and cut wood to make new steps up to the front porch. When we were done we stained and sealed them. It was probably the last normal thing we did before we found out she was sick. Now anytime I went back home all I could think about when I went up those steps was that last normal weekend spent sweating in the heat before everything changed.

I looked back to Miller standing beside the Maybach. “Any chance you’ll drive around the block while I’m inside?”

He softly chuckled but had the good graces to look apologetic. “No.”

I inhaled a deep breath and walked up the front steps. I took my keys out of my bag, unlocked the door, and went inside. It smelled like home. My mom had cookies baking in the oven and the entire house smelled divine. I walked through the living room and turned into the kitchen; My mom was wearing her paisley print oven mitt, bent over pulling a tray of chocolate chip cookies out of the oven. I watched her lay the cookie tray on the top of the stove and dive back into the oven for the other.

“Hi Mom.”

She jumped, clearly startled. “Olivia Louise you just scared the daylights out of me! I didn’t hear you come in sweetie.”

I smiled at her and walked into the kitchen eyeing the cookies. “Sorry mom, I didn’t mean to scare you. The cookies smell great.”

She took a spatula and started removing the cookies from the tray to cooling racks. “Well, you’ll just have to wait for a few minutes before they cool. I don’t want you burning the roof of your mouth again.”

I pulled out a stool and sat down at the kitchen counter. “One time. That happened one time and you’re never going to let me live it down.”

She stopped moving the cookies to look at me. “Ollie you burned the roof of your mouth so bad I had to take you to the doctor.”

I purse my lips at her and pretend to be unimpressed. “Well you should have put a warning label on them. How was I supposed to know that you had literally just taken them out of the oven?”

She chuckled and went back to putting cookies on the rack.

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