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REALLY FEEL FOR HIM
“You’re home early,” her mother said when she walked through the kitchen.
She could have entered through the downstairs, but she needed to vent and her mother was around for it.
“I am. I’m mad too.”
“Oh boy. Did you and Jace get in a fight?”
“Nope. He pissed me off and I left.”
Her mother lifted her eyebrows. “Do you need some wine for this?”
She debated for a minute. “Sure. I could use a glass.”
Aileen jumped up from where she was sitting in the family room, went to the wine fridge, and pulled a bottle out.
She grabbed the glasses and set them on the counter. Then Talia went in search of something fattening to snack on.
There were packaged cookies in the pantry so she pulled them out, then snatched the glass out of her mother’s hand and flopped on the couch and took a healthy sip.
“Are you going to tell me what is going on?”
“If I don’t, you’ll keep asking me.”
“Talia. If you didn’t want someone to talk to, you would have gone into your apartment through the downstairs.”
“And you would have known I was early and come down to see what was wrong anyway. I saved us both a step.”
Her mother laughed. “Yes, you did. So, save us even more and tell me.”
Might as well start at the beginning.
“West and Braylon found out that Jace was a center picture in a calendar for the fire department years ago.”
“Oh, my God. Now I remember where I saw him.”
“What?” she screeched. It was too much to think her mother might be ogling her boyfriend.
Yep, she said it again. Boyfriend.
Not just the guy she was dating.
Sleeping with.
Nope, the one she realized she was changing her feelings for.
She was going to have to give him a heads up so he could decide where to go.
The fact she stormed out tonight might have just decided it anyway.
He probably wouldn’t want to deal with it.
Her mother laughed. “I bought it years ago as they were raising money.”
“I never saw it.”
