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“Rell, what do you think of the nurse?”
Rell, whose wide body spilled from the driver’s seat onto the center console, just shrugged and gave me a little grunt.
I relaxed in the backseat and sighed. “She’s married.”
Rell glanced back at me with a surprised look on his face.
“But she’s getting a divorce.”
He shrugged again.
“She’s gorgeous, though, and so damn pretty. But she’s obviously got baggage.”
Nothing from Rell this time.
“But I like her, you know? She’s very intelligent. And caring. I mean, she was really concerned about you waiting in the car. And the way she was with Mel? She helped me, too, when I cut the baby’s cord. I told you that, right?”
He nodded as he pulled up to my gate, rolled the window down, and punched in the code.
“I don’t know. Maybe I should give her some time. Slow things down. I mean, I just met her. Maybe I’m moving too fast.”
Rell’s response was to park in front of my house and then slide out of his seat with a grunt. A few seconds later, he was opening the back door for me.
“Thanks, Rell,” I said, as I slowly walked up the steps and entered my house. I stood in the foyer for a moment, the silence taking my mood down a couple of notches. My mom and Mel had left and gone back to their house that morning after having spent the last couple of months of Mel’s pregnancy in my home, and I kind of missed them. The last thing I felt like doing was being in that big-ass house alone. I sighed as I headed toward my study, deciding I’d try to get some work done.
