Shaken or Stirred by Georgia Beers

Author:Georgia Beers [Beers, Georgia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635559293
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2021-08-01T13:08:54+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Should’ve taken the Unisom.

It was a damn good thing it was Sunday because sleep had played hide-and-seek with Savannah all night and did most of the winning. She couldn’t find it to save her damn life, and it was much, much too late to take a sleep aid now. She’d be a zombie.

Wide-awake when Julia’s text finally came—at three in the morning? really?—and it had given her new things to roll around in her head to keep her wide-awake. Like she didn’t have enough taking up her headspace already. Between her brother’s drunken brawl and her sister’s newfound tightness with Dina and concern about her father—which had begun the day her mother died and hadn’t eased up one iota since—Savannah’s brain was pretty well full of things to worry about. But Julia managed to find some space and squeeze right in, making herself at home among the family members.

Do I have a right to be angry? she wondered, knowing that she really didn’t. And angry wasn’t even the right word. She was so many other things, though, embarrassed being the biggest one. She hated that she’d called in a favor so early in their…What did they have? A relationship? A friendship? She didn’t actually know, but she was pretty sure she’d set it back a mile or two, and that was upsetting to her.

Upset. That was the right word.

She could have texted Julia. Told her she was sorry.

Truth. She could have. In fact, she should have. The ball was firmly in her court, really, yet she’d expected Julia to make the move, and when she’d waited until hours later, Savannah was hurt. Upset. Ridiculously. She had no right to be upset with Julia. This was on Savannah. And Declan. Mostly Declan.

With a long quiet sigh, she pulled the phone’s charger out and scrolled to Julia’s text. I hope everything went okay tonight. Simple. Straightforward. It was now 4:33 and she hoped Julia was home, sound asleep. With her phone on silent.

It’s okay for now. I’m so sorry. Do you think we can talk?

She stared at the words for a long time before adding a smiley, just as proof that she’d like things to be okay. Not the big, blushing smiley. Just the simple one, the one that was more gently grinning than openly smiling. No blushing. Just a grin.

She hit send. Knowing there was nothing she could do until Julia woke up, she set the phone aside and did her best to get a little more rest.

At 5:22, she gave up. Her brain would not settle—that had been her curse since her mother died. She worried about everybody, and her brain did a great job of keeping things organized, like it was a filing cabinet, and there was a file folder for each cause of worry. Her father, her father’s relationship with Dina, her brother, her sister, her house, each of her clients, now Julia…it was never-ending for a natural worrier. And it was freaking exhausting.

She stood under the

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