Recovering Beauty by Gina Azzi

Author:Gina Azzi [Azzi, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781732026155
Amazon: 1732026157
Publisher: Gina Azzi
Published: 2018-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

November

19

Sierra

"Hi Tota, it's me, Sierra," I say when my grandmother's warm voice fills the line.

"Sierra? Oh, hello. How are you, dear?"

"I'm well, thanks. How are you doing?"

"I've been thinking of you," she says, her voice holding a note of excitement. “I’m sorry I haven’t called you back but I keep thinking you have something to tell me.”

"I've been thinking of you, too." I smile, biting my bottom lip, wondering if she's going to tell me I'm expecting or if she's waiting for me to spill the beans.

"I believe you are in a time of new beginnings, of excitement, and wonderment. Perhaps a bit of uncertainty and anxiety as well, but that's natural. Are you?"

I laugh now, enjoying her indirect way of asking. "Yes, Tota. I'm having a baby."

"I knew it!" she exclaims, and the happiness in her voice is genuine. "I told your father just last week, something is going on with Sierra. I can feel it. I've been having dreams about you for months, my dear, and in the beginning, they were a bit disturbing. You were lost, unsure, confused. But little by little, you began to find your way, and a month or two ago, I started getting the inkling that it wasn't just you anymore, but you and another tiny heartbeat."

"I'm due in May."

"That's wonderful news, Sierra."

"Thanks, Tota. Is my father there, by any chance?"

She whooshes out a deep breath, and I can hear the disappointment in it. "No, dear. I'm sorry; he's not. I promise to tell him you called."

"Thanks, Tota. I'm not sure when I'll be able to visit again but—"

"Oh, don't you worry about that. Take care of yourself. And your baby. And that dashing man who I believe is taking care of you?"

I smile again, not even surprised that she seems to know my life better than I do. "He is."

"That's the type of man you need, Sierra. A man who will be beside you and support you when you need it without you having to ask."

I nod, agreeing with her words, realizing that Denver is doing all of those things without my prodding. "You're right."

"I know I am."

I snort, shaking my head.

“He’s a good man, isn’t he?”

“He is. A very good man.”

“Good. Sometimes, we are bogged down, really affected by our past that it makes it difficult to move on, find peace in the present and in the future. I worry about your own father sometimes, and the relationship he had with his father. I wonder if his father had been more of a role model, would he have been a better father to you and Lachlan? A better husband to your mother? It’s a difficult thing to admit when you have failed as a parent and in many ways, I failed your father.”

“Oh, Tota, don’t say that. It’s not –”

“It is true, dear. But he is to blame, too. He never tried to work past his issues. It’s important to embrace the present for all the wonder it offers, Sierra. Not to continually live in or compare the now to the past.

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