Search for Healing: A Small Town Single Mom Romance (Women of Healing Haven) by Mellie Callahan

Author:Mellie Callahan [Callahan, Mellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MRC Publishing
Published: 2021-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

20

Toni

She’s nobody.

I’m supposed to be listening to what my daughter’s saying, but Tenn’s dismissive words are the only thing I can hear.

I turn the radio from low to off in hopes it will help me concentrate on our drive back from Houston

“And then Kelsey asked if I could come stay with her over the summer for a weekend. She’s in Dallas and has a gym there. Can I, Mom?”

“We’ll see.” It’s a non-committal answer, but the best one I can give at the moment. Seeing Leni’s dropped grin, I revise it. “I’ll have to talk to her parents, okay?”

The tiny spark of hope perks her up as she continues on about the other friends she met, the skills she learned, and the pranks they pulled on some counselors.

I’m lucky enough to have a daughter who, on the cusp of the dreaded teenager years, still shares what’s going on in her life. Yet I can’t focus on any of it at the moment because my mind is still reliving all the highs and lows of the past twenty-four hours on a constant loop while sending up prayers.

Please don’t let Holland be mad at me.

Please don’t let this reflect negatively on the show.

Please don’t let them identify me.

Please don’t let them find out about Leni.

I even offer one up for Tenn, the man who whisked me away and made me laugh and made me come.

Please don’t let this blow back on Tenn.

He may be part of the reason I feel so stupid at the moment, but I’m the one who got into the fight, and I didn’t realize until I heard his agent yelling through the phone this morning how much risk he took in getting me away from the cameras so it wasn’t potentially worse.

Even if I’m nobody.

This is what I get. It’s the very thing I’ve warned Milla about time and time again about letting her dreams get too big. And Milla finding out will only make it that much worse.

Deciding to do this show, deciding to go home with Tenn, deciding to dream this big again—they were all my decisions, and I have myself to blame. I let myself hope and want and live, and now I run the risk of my life impounding. Of not being the only parent who decides if Leni gets to go see her friend in Dallas.

It’s as though I’ve been strapped to a bomb, watching the timer tick down until I explode everywhere. And there isn’t a thing I can do about it.

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