Risk by Raquel Belle

Author:Raquel Belle [Belle, Raquel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-06T06:00:00+00:00

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We talked for a while and by the end our lunch Charlotte was feeling good about the fact that she might be an aunt. She told us she’d never entertained the notion of having kids herself and thought that at her age it would be unlikely that she would conceive, especially with all the torture she’d put her body through in the army.

She was happy that her family’s blood had passed to another generation.

I didn’t know why she was skeptical of falling pregnant though, she’s only thirty-five.

After lunch I helped Charlotte clean up while Jack packed our things into the Escalade.

We readied ourselves for the long drive back to Los Angeles and are standing on the porch when it’s time to say our goodbyes.

“It was good to see you, Jack,” Charlotte says and hugs him, “don’t take so long for the next visit,” she looks at me, “either of you.”

“Thanks for having us, Charlotte. I owe you one.”

“You owe me more than that,” she laughs, “but I stopped counting.” Jack laughs too. He goes down the steps to the car. I hang back. Charlotte and I deserve our own moment.

She turns to me for a hug, “It was good to finally meet you, Deanna.”

“You too,” I say, “aside from the part where you wanted to kill me,” I chuckle.

“It’s been…enlightening,” she says. She holds me at arm’s length, looks at Jack and then gives me a kind smile. She speaks under her breath, “I want you to be with him,” she chokes up a bit and says, “you make him happy.”

I feel my brow shoot up.

Charlotte rolls her eyes. “Just take the win, Deanna,” she sneers and gives me a light push.

I feel a grin spread on my face as I trot down the steps.

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