Page 171 of The Holy Grail
“So am I,” said Edie.
Jules could tell her mom was in her car, and her dad appeared to be sitting outside in a ... golfcart?
“If you two are busy doing stuff, we can talk later,” Jules told her parents, who quickly shot down the suggestion.
“I just got to the grocery store, so now’s fine,” Edie replied.
“And I just finished my nine holes of golf,” Richard said, “but I can wait a few minutes to return the cart.”
“I didn’t know you’d taken up golf, Dad,” Jules said.
“It’s a recent development,” he explained. “It’s supposed to be relaxing, but when your ball goes into the sand trap on every hole, it really isn’t.”
For a moment, Jules was sidetracked, trying to picture her father golfing and not able to do it.
“So, what’s going on?” Edie asked.
Jules shook off the image of Richard Shaw in a pair of plaid golf pants and a sun visor on his head, hoping she’d never see that in person. “Part of it has to do with Mal—”
“Oh?” Edie perked up at that. “Are we going to get to meet him soon?”
“Yes.”
“That’s wonderful,” Edie gushed. “I can’t wait.”
“How soon?” Richard asked, his no-nonsense tone in direct contrast to Edie’s.
For the first time in almost forever, Jules was a little flustered, and when she answered, it showed. “I’m not sure, yet, but it will definitely be soon.”
Richard continued to simply look at her with an expression that told her in no uncertain terms he wasn’t satisfied with her answer.
She was a little taken aback at her dad being such a … dad. It made her readjust her numbers to ninety-five percent that nothing bad was going to happen, and five percent she might be wrong as she steered the conversation back to the real reason she’d contacted them. “There’s … something else I need to tell you.”
Richard’s eyes narrowed slightly in concern. “Are you pregnant?”
“What? No,” she quickly negated. “That’s not it.”
“Then what is it?”
“Do you remember me talking about someone named Evan?”
Both Richard and Edie looked blank for a moment, before their expressions cleared.
“David’s friend?” Edie asked. “The bartender?”
“Yes.”
“What about him?”
“Well, I never told you this, but I’ve had feelings for him since shortly after we met a few years ago—and he had feelings for me, too—but we never acted on them because of Paige and David. Honestly, it was more my decision than Evan’s, but anyway, we just stayed friends until recently—”
“What happened recently?”
With both parents looking at her, Jules gave them the watered-down version of Malcom and Gwen being with Evan (to give her parents the history between the two men), then went on to share the meeting at the Farmer’s Market and the subsequent conversations between all three of them, resulting in the decision to become a triad.
Richard and Edie were mostly upset with how long Jules had kept this from them, but Jules explained how she’d wanted to make sure the relationship was going to actually ‘stick’ before telling them.
“So, it’s sticking?” Edie surmised.
