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“Asshole,” Oakley muttered “I made him pull over into the mud so we could pass”

“Probably going to have to go pull hiotten sopile of mush”

Oakley shrugged “Those hoity-toity wine goers are annoying”

My lips twitched as alked around a corner and into a s that at first, I could do nothing but stare

My ot a load of the wall of s that surrounded us on two sides

“Holy shit,” I breathed “This place is breathtaking”

“Thank you,” I heard Viddy, the woman that had insinuated herself into my life lately, say

I looked doith twinkling eyes to see Viddy viciously chopping up some carrots

“Hello,” I said to Viddy “Happy Mother’s Day”

Viddy stopped chopping, turned, and promptly burst into tears

Trance sighed and ot there, he quickly disarmed her of her knife, and then pulled her into his arms

I looked over at Oakley, who looked sad for a few long moments

She turned to me and said, “Mom’s too rude to say thank you, apparently”

Viddy laughed and wiped her eyes, followed shortly by al her way toward me

She had me in her ar the girl who made me a mom”

I hugged the woman back as more like a mom to me than my own mom was

“I don’t regret even a second of it,” I informed her “How are you?”

She pulled away and lightly patted , “I’d be better if assholes didn’t drive up s”

Trance gru over by the halfway chopped carrots

A hesitant knock at the door had Trance leaving us and heading that way