The Comeback Route by Jamie Bennett

Author:Jamie Bennett [Bennett, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Give up some gratitude for second chances! Aren’t we lucky to have them? But remember: you messed it up the first time, so don’t do it again.

Three days until my book release! Have you already pre-ordered?

Yours in hoping for positive reviews, Mysti

“I’m going to miss you all so much! You’re like a second family to me.” I blew my nose on one of the new, logoed napkins that Lucy had ordered per my suggestion. “Do you think you’ll be able to get by without me, with the new décor and the social media? All the marketing ideas?”

Lucy nodded. “We’ll be fine. You know, you were only working here for two weeks.”

“Seriously?” I looked around El Asturiano. “It feels like I’ve been here forever!”

“We had a bet going on how long you were going to last,” Chara told me. I had seen money changing hands among the other bakery employees before my going-away party had started. “My mom said three weeks but I took the under.” She pulled a wad of cash from her pocket. “It was a good call, but I wish you weren’t going to move, Tatum. I’ll miss you, too.” She also took a napkin—made from recycled fibers—and wiped under her eyes. Since she had officially ditched the idiot Pirro, she was wearing less makeup than when I had met her. Also, Lucy said she was running after school to get herself back in shape so she would be able to try for the high school soccer team for her senior season, so I felt that my life coaching was leaving Chara in a better place.

“You can come visit me in Michigan, once we settle in,” I told her. “I hope you will.”

“Tatum, can I talk to you for a moment?” Lucy gestured toward the kitchen, and I followed her away from everyone enjoying their sidra and into the back. “I wanted to discuss something important,” she said.

“Oh, don’t worry. I’m already on antivenom,” I assured her.

“What? What are you talking about?” Lucy asked me, confused.

“Nothing. Nothing at all, never mind. What’s up?”

She shook her head. “I wanted to make sure you’re really ok to move to Michigan with Nico. Chara has been filling me in on your relationship, or what you seem to think is your relationship.”

“Aunt Lucy—can I call you that?”

“I guess,” she said, looking confused again.

“I know, I’m absolutely sure, that everything is going to work out perfectly with Nico. I have one hundred percent confidence in it, because despite how he acted for a while, he’s not a dumb guy. Pretty soon he’ll come to terms with it all.”

“With it all, meaning, with you as his girlfriend?”

“Oh, I’m not stopping at girlfriend. Nico and I are going to get married, and if possible, our first child will be a boy named Bastian, after the lifeguard who saved me two days ago in the pool when I went for a celebration swim after I got the stitches out of my hand. I’m not going in the pool again,” I promised.

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