Unfinished Business by Roxanne Hensley

Author:Roxanne Hensley [Hensley, Roxanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781734125825
Published: 2019-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

Adrian ladled golden milk into two mugs, placing one in front of her mother before joining her at the dining table.

“More golden milk, I see.” Margaret wrinkled her nose. “Why are we drinking this again?” Her voice sounded a little wheezy.

“Because Laura said it’s good for our immune systems.” They’d established a ritual of drinking the milk after dinner. Neither one of them expected it to be a cure-all by any means, but if it bought them a little more time together it was worth it. The fact that they wanted to spend more time together, and Adrian noticed Margaret had been sleeping better, made her chalk it up as a win.

“How did your meeting go with Christian today?”

“It went well, or as well as it could have, anyway. He told me basically to just sit and wait. Celeste hasn’t officially filed anything yet, so there’s really nothing for me to do.”

Margaret snickered. “Yeah, like you’re so good at waiting.” Adrian stuck out her tongue and they both giggled. “What about the paternity?”

“We’d have to wait for the baby to be born, and then we’d most likely have to exhume Brad’s body to prove it.”

“Wow, and if the baby is his after all is said and done, what then?”

“She’d be entitled to a portion of his estate, which would include our house and potentially our retirement funds since the majority of his life insurance policy paid our medical bills.” Adrian rubbed the back of her neck.

“Rats.” Margaret looked disappointed. “He’s even worse than I thought, leaving you with this mess to clean up.”

“Didn’t you teach me to not speak ill of the dead?”

“Yeah, but now I’ve got the sick old lady card to play and can say whatever I want.”

“And you’re milking it, aren’t you?” Adrian smirked. They finished their drinks, and Adrian placed the empty mugs in the dishwasher. “If you don’t need anything else at the moment, I’m going to call Laura.”

“Try to smoke only one cigarette this time. Remember, all this could be yours.” Margaret waved her hands over her body like Vanna White.

Adrian rolled her eyes. “Thanks, Ma.” She stepped outside and retrieved her not-so-secret stash of cigarettes. As the phone rang, she brought a cigarette to her lips and heard her mother hacking up a lung inside. The cigarette suddenly lost its appeal, and she slipped it back in the pack.

Laura answered. “So, how was it?”

“As good as I could expect at this point.” She recapped the details of the meeting, including the wait and see approach.

“And how are you handling that?”

“I guess I don’t have a choice, so I’ll have to dig deep to find patience.”

“Who knows. Maybe she’s lying and it’s not his baby.”

“Christian said that too.” She re-told his joke about daytime talk shows. “He’s so funny,” she mused.

“I like the sound of this.”

“Yeah, he seems really smart, and I’m happy to have someone like him in my corner.”

“I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about you. This is the most chipper you’ve sounded in a while.

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