Mother Pucker: Single mom, hockey romance by Swati MH

Author:Swati MH [MH, Swati]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kismet Publishing
Published: 2024-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

I get back to my room three hours later, after tucking Kai into bed and giving him a million kisses, and reminding him for the hundredth time that he could call me if he needed to talk to me at any time and that if he told me to, I’d catch the next flight back.

As usual, my son visibly refrained from rolling his eyes at me, but mumbled, “Yes, Mom,” in a drone-like voice.

I then went back to my best friends to go through the health and well-being checklist again. It only took an hour, and I did have to shake Dylan awake a couple of times, but thankfully, we got through the seventy-two items on the list. Thankfully, she was awake for the most important items–aside from what to do in major emergencies, which all my friends were well-capable of handling–like the fact that Kai needed to be reminded to apply shea butter to his knees every day because otherwise, his skin got dry and flaky, and that I really preferred if he got thirty-five grams of protein a day and at least two hours of sun.

But, of course, I didn’t want him running around too much in the sun either, because what if he tripped and I wasn’t here, so I specified that as well. Along with the fact that I really preferred he wore his velcro shoes, though he’d probably insist on wearing the ones with shoelaces.

Anyway, it really wasn’t all that much information, so I’m not sure why Delia kept repeating, “Oh, for the love of God!”

Honestly, I felt good about myself for not going through the additional twenty-item checklist I’d recently made that was still sitting on my work desk.

See? Progress.

After taking a shower and putting last-minute toiletries inside my suitcase, I get into bed. I look up at the exposed rafters, thinking about the cathartic conversation I had with my best friends.

They’d been keeping their feelings about Ajay behind a barricade for so long–out of respect for him being my husband at the time–that once the floodgates opened, it was like everything came spilling out. Even Dylan, the most laid back of us all, got a little worked up talking about how she didn’t like the way he treated me at times.

I don’t think anyone would call Ajay a bad guy, because he wasn’t. He was loving and charming in his own way. But, like everyone else, he was flawed. He had some good qualities, but he had ones he needed to work on, if life had given him a chance. Except, the ones he still had to work on ended up affecting me the most. And for that, I’m disappointed in myself for not speaking up sooner.

Because for a woman who doesn’t shy away from speaking her mind, I sure didn’t do right by myself when I was with him. I allowed him to put me in second place, and that was just as much on me as it was on him.

But I’m slowly finding myself again.

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