Christine (Heaven Hill Shorts Book 2) by Laramie Briscoe

Author:Laramie Briscoe [Briscoe, Laramie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Laramie Briscoe Books
Published: 2019-09-21T18:30:00+00:00

"Have you been seeing anyone lately?" She asks as I finish setting her curls.

Doc Jones gets her hair done the exact same way every week. We do curls, sometimes a trim, but always the tight curls that every older woman who should be a grandmother baking cookies has. I've tried to get her to let me dye her hair, but she wants it white.

"Seeing anyone?" A small smile plays on my face. "What makes you ask that?"

"You look different today," her keen eyes meet mine in the mirror as I continue to work on her. "And you have a little bit of beard burn on your neck. Can't say I've seen that in the past two years - at least."

Damn her for being so attentive to every single thing around her. "There's this guy..."

"Stephen," she supplies. "The guy who does work for Heaven Hill? He does maintenance at the retirement home too."

Now this I didn't know, but it makes sense because they got her in there fast. Word had it there was a waiting list, but Doc Jones was accepted within twenty-four hours. "Yeah, Stephen."

"He talks about you, to me," Doc Jones smiles. "He thinks very highly of you, but worries that you won't be able to see past what Travis has done. I'm glad you finally gave him a chance."

But have I given him a chance? All we did was screw in my office. "He's nice," I'm purposely noncommittal.

"He's more than nice, you and I both know that."

"I just don't know, Doc," I start taking her curlers out, spraying it with the hairspray she likes. "How many times do I put myself out there and look like a dumbass? Every single time I've been burned."

"You keep going until the one time you don't get burned. There are people who never get a chance to put themselves out there, and here you're being given another chance, Christy. Why not take it?"

"I don't want to hurt again."

The answer should be clear.

"But aren't you hurting right now by being alone? I know you. You need your family, you need your friends, and you haven't been hanging out with Heaven Hill lately. They're worried about you."

To be honest, I'm worried about myself. "I feel guilty."

"Guilt will only eat at you, Christy. You've got to work on letting it go."

"Yeah and how am I supposed to do that?"

She grins. "Put yourself out there and see what happens. Don't shy away from men who care about you, and little girls who love the hell out of you. Justice needs you, whether you want to admit it or not, and she can't understand why you don't need her just as much."

Those words are a kick to my throat, and as I wave her off, I think harder than I have in the past ten months about where my life is going.

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