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“Only if my love life is off the table. I mean it. I’ll walk out before dessert again if anyone starts talking about?—”
“I’ll keep my mouth shut,” she vowed.
“No, you won’t,” I said lightly, my anger diffusing. “But I’ll be there anyway. I love you.”
“Love you, too, darling.”
Chapter 9
With a sigh, I gripped my phone. “Sorry about that,” I said to Bones. “I haven’t started on the waffles.”
“So, your mother…”
“My mother.”
“You didn’t tell her about yesterday.” His blue eyes surveyed me. “Why not?”
“It’s complicated,” I said slowly.
“I’m a pretty smart guy. I think I can follow along.”
I sent him soft smile and gestured with my chin toward the kitchen. “You know how to crack eggs?”
“I’m better at cracking skulls.”
I blinked, but when Bones didn’t rescind his comment, I realized he wasn’t joking.
There’s a badass biker in my house.
“No time like the present to learn.”
We headed back to the kitchen and gathered everything I needed to make waffles.
“So, your mom,” Bones pressed.
“My mom can’t handle stress,” I said.
“Can’t, or won’t?”
I plugged in the waffle iron. “Can’t. When life gets too stressful for her, she checks out. It’s not like she goes into a state of depression or anything. Nothing like that. But she’s…she has to be protected.”
“You’re making her sound fragile.”
“She is fragile.”
“She’s your mother. You really don’t think she would want to know what happens in her daughter’s life?”
“Oh, she wants to know what happens in my life. She’s even trying to manufacture a marriage for me.” I shook my head.
“With a senator’s son.”
“You heard more than you let on.” I whisked the ingredients together and then ladled the batter into the hot waffle iron.
“Why’s she so determined to fix you up?”
“She was really happy with my dad,” I said absently. “And she wants that for me. Only her approach is sort of lacking. I’m supposed to meet this guy at the charity event Charlie and I are going to in a few weeks. But now he’s gonna call and I’m going to have to level with him.”
“Level with him about what?”
