Those Sweet Words by Kait Nolan

Author:Kait Nolan [Nolan, Kait]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance
Publisher: Kait Nolan

Chapter Eight

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A ring made.

Wearing Flynn’s made this whole engagement feel more real. Mistake or not, it was easier to face telling people with it gracing her left hand. Pru had gotten more practice with that when they’d driven to Johnson City to pick up the exception to policy packet Monday morning, explaining her reasons for the request to the woman at DHS. Twenty minutes later, they’d left with the thick sheaf of papers and warm congratulations. They hadn’t run into Lydia Coogan, and that was a blessing. Pru had also gotten more details on Mae, who was scheduled for back surgery at the end of the week. At this stage, they weren’t clear when she would be back to work or whether she would be back at all.

“Do you know if she’s receiving visitors at the hospital?” Pru asked.

“Family only, right now.”

Pru wondered who that would be. She knew from her mother that Mae was long divorced and had no children of her own. It was part of why they’d been friends. Mae took as much joy from helping place children as Joan had from keeping them.

Back in the car, Flynn flipped through the packet. “This is…a lot of material.”

“I warned you, they’ll be going through your life with a fine-toothed comb. I don’t quite know how it will work since your friends and family are in Ireland, but I guarantee they’ll at least call.”

“Then I’d best prepare them.”

She glanced his way as she navigated into traffic. “And how’s that conversation gonna go?”

“Ma, Da, I met a wonderful woman, and I’m sticking around to see where it goes.”

“That simple?”

He picked up her hand, kissed it. “It’s the truth.”

Pru wished it were just that. She wished she were the only reason he was staying. She wished she were the kind of woman who inspired that kind of devotion. “I’d say the truth is a fair bit more complicated, and they’re gonna need some more details to back up our story. The whole engagement and—oh yeah—child make that a necessity.”

“My mother will be so thrilled at the prospect of my settling down and acquiring another grandchild, she’ll go along with anything. The hard part will be stopping her from hopping on the next plane to come welcome you both to the family.”

“That sounds both awesome and terrifying.”

“She can be both. She’s gonna love you.”

Pru didn’t know what to do with the future tense. A man with one foot out the door, with an eye on the eventual end of things wouldn’t talk about her meeting his mother. So what did that mean? Don’t fight it, she reminded herself, running a thumb across the bottom of her ring. Maybe she would meet his family. Maybe in the end this would all work out.

“Where are we going now?” Flynn asked.

“The police station. Might as well get the fingerprinting over with here. I don’t think anybody at the Sheriff’s Department would call Xander on his honeymoon, but I’d just as soon not have to explain anything to them until they’re actually back.

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