My Best Friend's Sister: A Secret Baby Romance (Southern Heat) by Natasha L. Black

Author:Natasha L. Black [Black, Natasha L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

18

MARK

I hung up the phone and set it down on the counter, pursing my lips to one side and staring at the screen. She wanted to speak to me. In person. What would she possibly need to speak to me in person for unless it was about why she had disappeared for three weeks?

Deciding I should at least look presentable, I ran a hot shower and got cleaned up from my daily workout before picking out some decent clothes.

I headed over to her office and noticed there was only one other car besides hers in the parking lot. Curiosity eating me up, I went to the door and rapped on it a couple of times before trying the handle. It was unlocked.

I opened the door and stood in the doorway, peering inside of the lobby and not believing what I was seeing. It was my Aunt Judy, sitting in a chair across from Carmela. Aunt Judy looked just like I remembered her from the last time we had been in the same room, years before, only older. She had her hair permed and piled high on her head in a style that looked like a poor imitation of Marge Simpson. She wore a lime green dress and jacket that looked like it had come out of the seventies and a pearl necklace that gleamed so white against her grossly dark artificial tan that it almost hurt to look at.

She looked up at me with her blue eyeshadow and too bright red lipstick curling up in a half-grimace, half-polite-smile and nodded.

“Mark, good to see you,” she said.

“What the hell is going on?” I asked. “What is she doing here?”

“Mark, I am right here,” Judy said. “You can speak directly to me.”

I took a moment to stare at her then turned my attention back to Carmela.

“Carmela?” I asked.

She sighed and glanced at Aunt Judy before adjusting her own skirt down near her knees and clearing her throat.

“Hello, Mark,” she said. “Please sit down.”

“I don’t think I want to sit,” I said. “I do enough sitting.”

“Please,” she said, and something in her voice got to me. My lips pushed together tightly, I walked across the room, past Aunt Judy, to take a seat on the other side of Carmela.

Carmela cleared her throat again and fiddled with the papers in front of her for a moment before looking me directly in the eyes. There was reluctance in that look, like she didn’t want to but knew she had to look at me. Like she was doing all this under duress.

“I have been speaking with your aunt for a few days now,” she said. “She has been reconsidering her position about the practice.”

“Excuse me?” I asked, suddenly dumbstruck.

Judy had a thin smile on her face but was looking away. I couldn’t tell if it was embarrassment or frustration, but I moved my attention back to Carmela. She was peering at me over the top of a manila envelope open in her hands. Slowly, she closed it and leaned forward, holding it out to me.

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