Something About You by Christine L'Amour

Author:Christine L'Amour [L'Amour, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Laura met Jacqueline at the woman’s house, two hours away. She didn’t want to go all the way there, but she also didn’t want Jacqueline in her home, and this wasn’t the sort of conversation, she felt, one should have on the phone or in a public space. So she excused herself from work for the day, got her car, and went. Her former mother-in-law’s place was big and beautiful, but obviously newly-purchased—there wasn’t much on the walls and some furniture hadn’t even arrived yet.

Laura didn’t like it. She wouldn’t like to live like this, and would only have moved in after the house was perfect.

“Jacqueline,” Laura greeted when the woman opened the door for her.

She served tea and they sat on what appeared to be her breakfast nook. The tea was too hot and too bitter.

“You wanted to talk to me,” the woman said innocently, looking at her from the corner of her eyes.

“Yes,” Laura said. “You can’t do what you did a few days ago again, Jacqueline. You came to James’ school and backed me into a corner.”

She sighed, setting her perfect teacup back on its saucer.

“He is my grandson,” she said simply. “I know you don’t like me, Laura. I know you don’t want me to see him. If I have to back you into a corner to be able to spend time with him, I will.”

“You have no right to that,” Laura said icily.

“No right?” Jacqueline snapped. “No right where? I’m his grandmother, and you’ve kept him from me long enough!”

“Kept?” Laura asked, baffled. “I never kept James from anybody. You are the ones who never came to see him, who never visited him, who never invited us to any celebrations! I remember his fifth birthday, Jacqueline, do you? I invited both our families and no one came.”

“And you think that had nothing to do with you? You’re isolated! You never reach out! You’re keeping him to yourself, and I won’t stand for it! He’s my grandson, Laura, my only grandson!”

“He’s my son!” Laura shouted, standing up. “You can’t make demands on his time! I don’t care that you’re related to him by blood—you’ve never cared about him or about me! You all abandoned us after the divorce, Jacqueline, and I’ll be damned if I let you pretend it never happened.”

Jacqueline stood up as well, her hands curled in fists.

“He’s your son all right,” she snapped. “Your son, because you just used my Robert to get yourself a child and ran off! I know how you are, you—you—people like you!”

Laura stilled.

“People like me,” she repeated, voice bland.

Jacqueline looked her up and down with disgust. “You’re not a proper woman, Laura. James deserves a real, proper family, and he belongs with his father, who might yet give that to him! Not you, who will probably marry that unemployed blond woman that hangs around you all the time!”

“Proper family,” Laura parroted.

“Will you just stand there and repeat everything I say?” she snapped.

Laura looked down. Her hands were shaking slightly.

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