You & Me (You & Me Series Book 1) by Lisa Shelby

Author:Lisa Shelby [Shelby, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: You & Me
Publisher: Lisa Shelby Books, LLC
Published: 2016-10-24T21:00:00+00:00

The next morning Robert is having his coffee and reading the paper in the kitchen, Kate is still asleep and Liam and I are getting ready to head out to The Gym when Fiona asks me to help her with something in her room.

When we reach my room, which I insisted they take while they’re visiting, I ask, “Whatcha need, Mrs. F?”

“Have a seat, Jonathan,” she says as she shuts the bedroom door.

I take a seat on the bed and she moves the little chair from the corner of the room over so that she’s sitting directly across from me. She is scaring the hell out of me and I feel like she’s about to give me some very bad news or I’m about to be scolded for something. I can’t think of what I could have possibly done wrong in the time since they got here. This woman, who is all of five feet tall, has me feeling twelve again.

“Is everything okay, Mrs. F?” I ask cautiously.

“Everything is fine, sweetie.” She takes one of my hands in both of hers and gives it a squeeze. “Jonathan, you know that I would never try to replace your mother. I don’t ever want to over-step my role in your life, but I think you know that I think of you as my son and I love you just as much as I do those other two yahoos down the hall. You know that, right?”

I can barely breathe I am so filled with emotion. It takes everything I have to whisper. “I do.”

If she only knew just how important she is to me.

“Good, now as you know I have to sleep with the window open no matter the weather—so please know I was not eavesdropping—but I did hear your conversation with Robert and Liam last night, about Emily.”

I exhale the breath I was holding and with it the huge ball of anxiety that had been sitting in my chest. I let out a soft chuckle when I say, “You want to talk about my love life?” She nods her answer. “Thank God! I thought you had something serious to tell me.”

“There’s nothing more serious than love, my boy. From the sound of it, that’s what you and Emily have but she may not be able to accept it yet?”

“I keep telling myself that we were only together nine days, and that was five years ago but I just know . . .”

“What do you know, Jonathan?”

“I know that she’s the one and I love her. I’m sure that everybody thinks I’m nuts, but my time with her made me a better person; made me look at strangers differently because she treated everybody the same whether she knew them or not. She’s an amazing person and she makes me better. I know that for sure.”

“Jonathan, you were your mother’s world. Her biggest wish for you was that you find somebody to love and that one day you would be whole and happy again. Your dad really was the love of her life and she was his.

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