FALLING FOR MEADOW (PERKS & BENEFITS #4) BY DENISE STONE, KELS STONE – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Denise Stone
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Ollie
“It’s been nearly seventeen years, I doubt she even remembers me.”
The lie sounds convincing enough.
Outside the kitchen window, the Macraes’ porch light flickers in the
blackness, as if luring me next door. Unease buoys in my chest. I place the
dirty dessert plates in the sink and spin around to face my parents at the
table.
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Da hums and cocks his eyebrow.
“Sure.” Ma raises the left side of her mouth in a smirk that’s far too
presumptuous for the occasion.
No chance the girl I fell in love with as a naive teenager has thought
about me once over the years. Especially after everything that unfurled
between us. Surely the best I can hope for tonight is a friendly hello. A
chance to suss out how things will be during my very temporary return to
Thistlehill.
“Right, well…” I drum my hand on the counter, trying to work out my
nerves. No point in wasting any more time.
“Ye’ll be fine. Ye’re doin’ the right thing by going o’er there and
breaking bread with the Macraes.” Da lumbers over to me. His hand lands
heavily on my shoulder. “Nane can refuse yer ma’s whisky cake. Not even
Meadow.”
I force a smile, and he does the same—crooked and uneven. A replica of
mine. The decades have grayed my da’s hair and dented creases into his
cheeks. He still has my vibrant brown eyes, the sulfur and wood on his skin.
A scar above his brow I don’t remember.
“Better to get the reunion o’er with, Ollie. She’s already not expecting
you, and it’s gettin’ late. Rare to catch her home most weeknights,” Ma
chimes in.
“Should I wait until tomorrow?” I ask nervously. How is Meadow going
to react when I show up at her door? “Did you even tell her I was coming?”
“’Course we did. But we weren’t going to be arranging a playdate for ye
two. It’s better tae go o’er there now than wait around for her to come tae
ye; she’s very busy.” There’s a sharpness to Ma’s words as she crosses her
arms over her chest. Her white plaited hair drapes across her right shoulder.
“Aye.” I wave off my parents, grab the glass container filled with Ma’s
famous whisky cake, and head to the front door.
“I thought he’d get here and change his mind.” Ma’s hushed whisper
comes from the kitchen. “I near want to cancel our trip so we can get more
time with him.”
“No, mo ghràdh; I’m not givin’ up the trip ye’ve wanted a second time.
I will not. You’ve been waiting for a chance at a real honeymoon for
seventeen years.”
“Oh, Seamus.” My mother’s voice trembles.
“Our boy ne’er bothers coming home, and we’ve made our peace with
our life here not being good enough for him. He’s a man now; he can make
his own decisions.”
“Then we’ll have to make the most of the week we have with him,” Ma
resolves.
I’m not a good son. It was easier to hide from that truth across an entire
ocean.
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