The Woman in Harm's Way by Jessica Gadziala

Author:Jessica Gadziala [Gadziala, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-25T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Savannah

“Mom!” I yelped when I stepped off onto the back porch to see her sitting there, already cradling a cup of tea between her hands, rocking in one of my chairs, looking the picture of calm and happy.

While my thoughts raged out of control.

Mostly about Nino.

And his brother.

And the whole, you know, incident.

He could try to sugarcoat it all he wanted; I was well aware of what a fool I must have looked like to his family.

I was never someone who stressed so much about making a good first impression. But that was also likely because I’d never been so serious with a guy that I got to the ‘meeting the family’ stage.

I mean, not that I was serious about Nino.

Well, yeah, you could draft up a pretty good argument about my sexual feelings for Nino being pretty damn serious. And, fine, yeah, I was even pretty into the guy. Especially after sitting across from him over a meal and listening to him talk about his life and his family.

He would laugh and smile.

And, yes, get those sexy little eye crinkles while he did so.

I liked him.

But we weren’t, you know, dating.

He was just a nice guy who felt guilty about me getting shot.

“Good morning, my sweet angel child,” she said, making me let out a little snort as I sat down in the chair beside her, taking a greedy sip of my coffee.

I know I’d promised Nino I would rest. And while I had kept my butt in bed, I hadn’t exactly been sleeping. I’d busied myself with my little projects and some light reading to try to quiet my mind. But when I kept screwing up my stitches and sketches and having to re-read the same page fifteen times, and still not absorbing any of it, I gave up, slid down in the bed, and tried to sleep.

I failed miserably at that, too consumed with thoughts of a man who didn’t seem to want anything serious with me, until eventually, my pain medicine kicked in, and I passed out.

“You really shouldn’t have weeded. This is too much. You’re going to burn out,” I insisted.

“Oh, I didn’t do all of it,” she said. “Nino did the front bed,” she added. Light. Breezy. Like she hadn’t just dropped that little bomb.

“Wait… what? Nino?”

“Yes, darling. When I got here this morning, he had already finished the front bed. He did a good job too. I don’t think he accidentally pulled a single flower of yours.”

“His mom used to make him weed her garden,” I told her.

“So, you’ve talked about his mother, have you?” she asked, and I didn’t quite understand the tone she was using. That was weird, since I’d lived and worked with her my entire life. I thought I knew all of her tones.

“Yeah. He talks about his family a lot. They’re all very close.”

“That’s nice,” she said in that same odd tone. A little tight, tense around the edges. And my mother was never tense.

Maybe it was all the work starting to get to her.

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