The Executive Boss (Billionaire Boss Book 2) by J.A. Pierre

Author:J.A. Pierre [Pierre, J.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-10-01T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

In the car ride home after the reception, I sat in the back while Mom sat up front with Mike, who drove. His wife was still at the reception. Mom had never gotten her license; she’d relied on my dad to drive her everywhere until he left one day, when I was twelve. The first few days she told us that he was working overtime. Then she said he was on a business trip. When a month passed and we continued to ask about him, she told us he was gone. She was tired of making excuses for him. Then she was silent; her thoughts about our dad cloaked.

She managed to get around the island by calling one of our relatives or by taking a taxi.

I listened as Mike and Mom talked about who’d crashed the reception, drinking up the premium liquor; how gorgeous my cousin looked in her flowing white dress; where the newlyweds would be going for their honeymoon; how our family sure had some good- looking people; and when would I be sharing those genes with a child.

“My firstborn child—I’m waiting for some grandbabies,” Mom said.

She already had two grandbabies, Mike informed her, and Roxanne had one on the way.

“Yes, but she’s the youngest,” Mom replied. “I want Augustine to settle down and have kids too.”

“Augustine has always been about her career,” Mike said. He was the family member who knew the most about my life due to our monthly phone chats.

Mom shook her head. “I find that when people are all about getting an education and their careers, they make no time to love someone.”

“Hmm.” Mike turned onto McHenry Lane, Mom’s street. “I did see her talking to a friend of mine tonight. Troy asked you out?” Mike glanced at me in the rearview mirror. His hairline showed specks of gray.

“Yes,” I replied. “So what do you think about him?”

Mike grinned. “Troy, he’s a good guy. Single. A hard worker.”

“Does he have any kids?”

“He has a daughter; she’s a student at the university in St. Augustine.”

“Okay,” I said, sighing. “Is there any man around my age without children?”

Mike and Mom glanced at each other, and then Mom let me know that Troy was probably closer to fifty than forty, and that most single men I met at this age were probably also divorced. “No children and never married. What percentage of men would fall into that category at that age?” Mom made a zero sign with her hand.

“The good ones get plucked up by thirty,” Mike said.

“I thought Troy was much younger,” I said. If he was older than I thought, he looked even better for his age. I looked out the window, rallying myself to stay positive. I didn’t want Mom to make me feel too bad. Most of my friends were married in their early thirties.

Mike pulled up in front of the house. In many ways the neighborhood looked the same as when I’d left, except the road had been paved. At our house, the grass was as neatly trimmed as when I was growing up.

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