Page 104 of Blossoms of the Heart
I nodded. “We are.”
I glanced down at my pearl nestled between my breasts and smiled. I’d never had such a beautiful, thoughtful present.
“Mitsuke. Candace…”
“Don’t worry about her.” She could see my concern.
“But I do, and I feel bad. I shouldn’t have kissed him if he’s with her.”
“But he’s not. Phoebe he’s not seeing her.”
“He loved her. He told me he used to and that he was giving their relationship some thought. ”
“Phoebe, things happen in life and you just can’t get them back. I won’t sugar coat anything and say that he didn’t love her, because he did. But I told you her competition just walked back into his life in a massive way.”
“How do you know what he’ll do? He may surprise us both.”
She gritted her teeth and instantly looked guilty. “Okay, please don’t be mad. Remember I love you.”
Oh God what did she do?
“What?” I pulled back my fingers as she was about to apply the gloss on my baby pink nails.
“I’ve been thinking of ways whereby I wouldn’t have to tell you this but I think that I should to give you a heads up.”
“Suspense Mitsuke, what did you do?”
“I went to see him at the garage earlier and told him about Jason. I told him you got married and you divorced Jason’s cheating ass.”
My eyes widened. “Mitsuke, did you tell him anything else?” Of course I immediately thought of my health concerns.
“No, no.” She rested her hands on my shoulders probably guessing what I was thinking. “Phoebe, he should know about Jason. That was common knowledge. He just missed it because he wasn’t here. Anything else would be out of line to speak of.” She assured me with a nod. “That’s for you to tell.”
“I… don’t want to have that conversation with anyone.” It was so awful for me. fearing to fall in love with someone who wanted a family of their own and having to tell them I couldn’t do it.
It tore at my heart every time I thought about it.
“Don’t worry about it now.” Mitsuke reached out and gave my hand a gentle squeeze.
“It worries me a lot.”
“All I want you to do is give yourself a break, with a nice guy who adores you.”
It sounded nice.
Really nice.
“A break.”
“A break.” She cooed.
Just then my phone chimed next to me. I frowned when I saw it was mom.
She’d called earlier too just before I was about to head out to the beach and I didn’t answer.
“I’d better take that. I’ll put the top coat on later.”
“Don’t let her upset you.”
