The Vessel by Snow Jenika

Author:Snow, Jenika [Snow, Jenika]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Jenika Snow
Published: 2020-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

17

Elise

I was confused and shocked at what my aunt just told me. “Really?” I stopped in the middle of my living room and stared out at the parking lot of the apartment complex. It had been a full day since I’d seen or spoken with Lucius, and I wondered if him staying away had been as hard for him as it was for me.

But I refused to contact him, and I was thankful he gave me space. Especially after the kiss we shared.

Lucius said somebody would pick me up for work and bring me home. For every shift. And it was nearing the time I normally left for the subway, so I was a nervous wreck as I waited to see if it would be Lucius who stopped by this morning or the man he called Charlie.

“Can you believe it, Elise?” My aunt’s animated voice snapped me back to the present.

“No, I can’t.” I felt my brows knit.

I really can’t.

My aunt telling me that their landlord had come over last night to tell them their garden could stay up, and that he also didn’t mind anything else they wanted to do in the back or front yard, took me by surprise.

“Yeah, it’s the craziest thing. He came over yesterday afternoon all smiles and polite, telling us we could do whatever we wanted. He said we could even build another raised bed.”

I felt my brows knit harder as disbelief claimed me. That certainly didn’t seem like the asshole I talked to just the other day. Although I hadn’t told my mother or aunt that I paid a visit to him, something felt a little bit off with Rodney’s sudden “have no cares about what his tenants did” attitude. He’d been a real prick to me, but he was now okay with them having the garden? Maybe me talking to him had made him have a change of heart?

Unlikely.

The sight of a dark, very expensive—and out of place in my neighborhood—looking car pulling into the driveway had my internal thoughts waning. I knew it was for me without even seeing the driver. I hadn’t been paying attention to what my aunt was saying, but I picked up little bits and pieces on the fact that she was clearly excited about this new change of heart from Asshole Landlord.

“Beanie and I are going to build another raised bed. She wants more marigolds.”

And as I continued listening to my aunt tell me all the things they’d plant, as I watched Lucius climb out of the driver side of the car and start heading toward my building, I realized it wasn’t me who changed the landlord’s mind, nor had Rodney had a sudden change of heart.

No, this was no coincidence that in the span of a day, after I told Lucius about all the troubles of my aunt and mother, everything was now solved.

I didn’t know how to feel in that moment. Should I be upset he did this behind my back? Should I be

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