Page 66 (1/2)

I nodded, not sure that I trusted my voice Mom didn’t question me further She just let ate

“Hey, Sandy whooh, baby girl, you okay? Who do I have to hunt down?”

I pulled away, laughing at his co from her mom”

Mom smiled as she cupped my cheek “I have an endless supply of those”

Shawn started wiggling to get free Dad put hierly ran to me His little arms contained the power to make all the bad melt away

“How’s ood for Grammy and Pa-Pa?”

“Yes!”

“Yes, he was,” Dad affir”

I put Shan, and he took off running back down the hall with Dad following behind him

“You hungry? I was about to fix lunch”

“Yeah, lunch sounds good”

She placed her hand on my back, and rubbed in small circles as we started down the hall “You sure you’re okay? You look troubled”

I forced a sood”

~~~~~~~~~~~~

When we got hoe I wasn’t sure if she had always been a workaholic, or if this was a new thing because of her divorce, but ht The sight of her car one I stared at the empty spaces that used to house his cars I wasn’t sure how I felt not seeing the dust covered car wraps I hadn’t stopped to think about it thislate for one