Defining Love: Volume 3 (Defining Love #3) by Elizabeth Reyes

Author:Elizabeth Reyes [Reyes, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00WTIA6QO
Publisher: Elizabeth Reyes
Published: 2015-05-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Aaron

It was no surprise that my parents would disagree about my being with Henri now. My dad said if it was what my heart wanted then that’s who I belonged with. My mom, of course, was worried about several things. Henri had been right about Bea telling my mom. My sister had kept her promise and not told my parents about walking in on us, but she had shared with my mom previously about me admitting I was in love with Henri. So my mom was worried I was acting on impulse because I’d become infatuated with Henri.

It took my mom a while to come around, but several weeks after Bea’s unexpected discovery and my officially telling my parents about Henri and me, Mom asked me to bring her over for dinner. Henri had been understandably nervous about meeting my parents again, this time as my girlfriend, not my much younger sister’s friend. I told her she didn’t have to if she didn’t feel ready to, but she said she may as well get it over with.

To my surprise, my mom’s first impression of Henri, which she’d never bothered to share with me before, was completely different from the impression Henri had first made on me. My mom said Henri came across as painfully meek. Almost to a fault.

“When Beatriz first introduced her new friend that time you picked them up from the show, her voice was a near whisper and almost it seemed as if she were trying to hide behind one of the other girls.”

This time she said she seemed a little less bashful but could understand why she’d be. Still, she said there was something that seemed uncomfortably reticent about her. I got the feeling my dad had coached my mom beforehand to not be too probing on their first real meeting with Henri because she didn’t ask too much of her as expected. But she did grill me the next day when she called to discuss her.

“So, she’s only here for school but lives in California,” she began, and I knew exactly where she was going with this. “You seem very adamant that she’s the one, mijo. It makes me nervous. Have you given any thought to what happens once she goes back?”

“Not a whole lot” was the most I’d give her because it was the truth. “It’s so early on in our relationship, and she still has years left of school here. Anything can happen between now and then.”

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Another thing my mother had been worried about was, since Henri was so young, it could be another long wait before we moved to the next level. “You’re twenty-nine, Aaron. I know you think you’re still a spring chicken, but if you wait another ten years with this one, you’ll be pushing forty. You don’t want to wait that long to start a family.”

I had to laugh. At least she’d moved on from insisting she still believed Mia was my soul mate to something new to nag about.

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