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“So You’ve been trying to fight your soullare to ht that If the universe has decided it’s Daniel, it’s going to be Daniel”

“But how do I know? It’s all going too fast What if ake up one day and decide we hate each other? How do I even know he’slike the other jewellery did” Mayyyyyybe that’s not so true “And- and even if we’re soulmates nohat’s to say that down the road, on’t be? People change People fall out of love People beco, lifetime love is a myth”

“Bollocks”

My jaw coed and drops an inch “Did you just say bollocks?”

Granny cackles “That’s right, because that’s a straight up load of nonsense You think that your grandht?”

“I… I guess so”

“That’s right, we sure as shit did You think it was easy for us, all those years, staying together, raising a fa a business?”

“Uh- no”

“Yes! It usually was We had more money and success than we knehat to do with an we’d always gotten along, right from the first I kneas it for ht off for years to e the nuood man The best man I ever knew Hele, hardly ever fought, and kneas love at first sight, didn’t mean that we didn’t have our ups and downs, but he was always very, very easy forleft Or wrong Or whatnot You think I never made a mistake before?”

“Yes, of course Everyone’s human”

“Ha!” Granny swats her knee “Your old granny here never makes mistakes I’m as perfect as they come”

I grunt, which isn’t a laugh, but it’s not really not a laugh I know that Granny is trying to cheerinto her traps and it’s kind of funny, actually “I know you and grandpa were madly in love, but I also know that after he died, you allowed yourself a certain amount of freedom”

“Just because I want to use it before I lose it doesn’t randpa or that I don’t le day When I’o with high hopes that he’s out there so forhiesta family was scary There was lots of stuff to distract us, to drive us off our path, to pull us apart, but we never let that happen We could have, but we didn’t And just because eren’t like other couples didn’t mean diddly poo towho I am today, even if all you kids think I’m meddlesome

“The truth is, I wanted you to be happy I sahat my two bonehead sons did to your mom and aunt I wanted you to have a happy ever after that they never got All I could do was lighten their load, stick together as women- that sacred sisterhood of mothers- and help raise you all to turn out better than my own boys did Your fathers set a poor exaeneral I know it put you all right off ever having your own deep relationships- relationships where you give all of yourself, because you’re afraid of being hurt I wanted to fix what I could, and the only way I could do that ith the curse I think if you have a shot at being happy, don’t worry about being afraid Don’t worry about the ht, that doesn’tI know you called ht truth, because you trust ood advice, and because you needed a laugh and ranny’s shoulders Well, I’ht and let you knohat’s what Besides I know you’re far from done with Daniel And I know you’re about to be welco about You beco I’ve heard since Luna told us she was expecting again”