The Wrong Track by Jamie Bennett

Author:Jamie Bennett [Bennett, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

I waited, but Hazel’s mom didn’t seem any more ready to start the project, the reason that she was sitting at the kitchen table with me. “Who’s a little peanut?” she asked Ella. “Who’s the sweetest little peanut?”

That was what Tobin called her, too, and that nickname seemed to be sticking. I waited.

“This little piggy…oh, Remy! She smiled at me!” I thought that Monica might start to cry. “Didn’t you, honey? Who’s the best baby in the world?” And Ella smiled again, because she had started to do that a lot, and Monica had to find a tissue to wipe her eyes.

“Ok, ok,” she said after a moment, and between sniffs. “I always made fun of my mom and how she would flip out over Hazel when she was a baby, but now I totally understand. When you’re not the one who’s half-zombie from the lack of sleep and with spit-up in your hair, you really do appreciate the little ones more. This is how being a grandmother will be, I guess.” Her eyes lit up.

“I bet Hazel and Hatch will have a big family,” I encouraged her. “You can see how much they love that dog. But you can practice on Ella, if you want. She doesn’t have a grandma, so…”

If possible, Monica looked even happier. “I would be honored,” she said to me. “I’ll think of a good name she can call me! And it won’t be Miss Monica, and you’re not to call me that either,” she reminded, and I really had tried to stop. Tobin had also informed me that his mom was offended when I called her Miss Charlene, because she didn’t see it as respectful at all. Now I wasn’t calling her anything because I was hiding in the bedroom when she came over.

Tobin was back at work, full-time but not on patrol. I found this harder than I could have imagined. I was glad he wasn’t out yet on the roads, where things could have been dangerous for him. I thought it would be even better if he stayed here, at home with the two of us, which would be the safest thing of all. But he was thrilled to be out of the house, even if it was just to do admin stuff at the station. He was thrilled to be out of the long cast, to be driving, to have moved a big step closer towards his normal life. I just tried not to cry when he left in the mornings, when Ella and I stood in the front window and I waved her hand at him and he blew kisses back.

“So.” Monica opened her laptop and her fingers stretched above the keyboard. “You want to think of a plan! I’m so happy about that. This was how I got started in real estate, you know. I sat down with my friend Evelyn and we typed it all out. Then I felt like I could really do it, like it wasn’t just a silly dream and I was on the right track.

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