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“Not much I could have done. I sat around and talked and ate. I left around seven.”
“Sounds like an early night then,” her mother said. “What did you do today?”
“I went to lunch and then the movies and Daisy and I relaxed at home after.”
None of that was a lie. She was just omitting the fact that there was a man with them.
Her boyfriend.
If her mother asked her if she was seeing anyone, she’d be honest and say yes, but her mother never asked her.
It was almost as if her mother didn’t want to know because then she might admit her daughter would never return to New Hampshire.
There was no way Heather was going back, but her mother couldn’t seem to get that out of her head.
“That’s nice,” her mother said. “You aren’t overdoing it, right?”
“I’ve told you no a few times,” she said.
“That’s right. I forget.”
“What’s going on, Mom?”
There was silence on the other end. “I’d like to come see you. I know you’ve got a doctor’s appointment in a few weeks. But I just miss you.”
“I miss you too, Mom. But we are talking more now than ever.”
“Because I almost lost you and I guess that is part of my problem.”
Crap. She hadn’t thought of that. “You didn’t lose me,” she said.
“Because of that nice police officer and doctor that were on the scene right away.”
“State trooper,” she said.
“You know what I mean,” her mother said.
It was the perfect time to say she was dating Luke, but it didn’t seem right with her mother being all emotional.
“I suppose,” she said. “But are we going to have these nightly calls forever?”
Her mother laughed. It was probably forced. “It’s not nightly. I didn’t talk to you last night.”
Which was a good thing since she wasn’t alone and wouldn’t have stopped what she was doing to answer the phone anyway.
“But you called me in the morning.”
“That’s right. It’d been over twenty-four hours since we talked.”
“Good point,” she said. “If that is all, I’m really tired and have to get up for work tomorrow. Just like you.”
“Nothing more to say,” her mother said, “other than I love you.”
“Love you, too, Mom,” she said and hung up.
When she was ready to drift off, she picked her phone up and was going to send a text to Luke to tell him again how much fun she had and thank him for including Daisy, but she figured he was probably in bed too and there was no reason to bug him. She didn’t want to be a clingy girlfriend.
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