For You I'd Bloom: A Small Town, Enemies-to-Lovers Romance (Peace Falls Series Book 3) by Hannah Jordan

Author:Hannah Jordan [Jordan, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2025-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter twenty

Lauren

As soon as the door shut behind Aiden, Mr. Fitzwilliam gently took my arm and walked me to the closest chair. “Move,” he told the young man at the bistro table, who was clearly on a first date with the woman across from him. The guy jumped up from his chair and the young woman quickly left her seat as well. They both grabbed their drinks and scurried to the back of the store. If they became a couple and got married, one day they’d be telling their children about their crazy first date at Karma.

Mr. Fitzwilliam took a seat across from me. “I didn’t know,” I said again.

“Here,” Rowan said, shoving a glass of water at me.

“I’m fine.” It would have sounded more convincing if my voice hadn’t cracked on the second word. I took a sip of water and tried to center myself. “I’m fine,” I said with more conviction. “Can you please help the people in line? They’ve been waiting.”

Rowan’s eyes widened like she’d completely forgotten about the customers staring at us. “Of course,” she called out as she ran back to the counter.

Mr. Fitzwilliam reached across the table and wrapped his weathered hand around mine. “Brandi didn’t know either.”

“Max?”

He nodded and my stomach dropped. For a terrible moment, I thought I might throw up the small sip of water I’d drunk onto him.

“I’m not telling you to make you worry, but to explain why that young man got so heated. I’m assuming he knows Brandi and Max?”

“He does,” I said, thinking back to all the times he slid her a twenty when she waited on our group at the bar where she worked. “Now that I think about it, Brandi probably went to school with one of his sisters. His name is Aiden O’Malley.”

“Ah, yes,” Mr. Fitzwilliam said. “That explains it. Kayleigh is my daughter-in-law’s best friend. She’s one of the only people outside our family Brandi trusts to babysit Max.”

“Should I call my doctor?” I asked as an overwhelming panic made my breath come in spurts.

“If it’d make you feel better, why not? There’s no sense making yourself sick with worry.” He squeezed my hand. “Congenital toxoplasmosis is rare, and Max’s case is more severe than most. The Karma cats stay indoors, so that lowers the chances quite a bit. But you should listen to Aiden and have someone else handle the litter for you.”

I pulled my hand from Mr. Fitzwilliam and forced a smile on my face. “Thank you. I think I might go upstairs and lie down now.”

He shoved back from the table at the same time I did. I could feel his eyes on me as I walked past the line, which had thankfully shortened during our brief conversation. “I’m going to lie down,” I told Rowan. She nodded and continued adding whipped cream to a drink in a to-go cup.

Desdemona meowed the second I stepped into the back and hopped toward me on her three legs. I froze. Could I still pet my cats? “Sorry.

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