Page 105 of Wardrobe Malfunction

“The way your father looks at me. And the way your grandpa used to look at your gran. The way Greg looks at Sasha. And Vic looks at Meg. Like there’s no one else in the room when they’re there.”

My mother is too damn observant for her own good.

“Did you know that Gran has a boy toy?”

“Nice subject change. And he’s hardly a boy toy.” She laughs.

“Gran is ten years older than him!”

“How old is Charly?”

“Nice switch back.”

“Thanks.” She grins.

“She’s twenty-five,” I tell her.

“You’re nearly five years older than her, Vaughn. You’ll be thirty soon. Does that make you her sugar daddy?”

“What the hell, Mom?” I groan. This conversation is seriously going in entirely the wrong direction. “I’m twenty-nine, for crying out loud, not fifty-nine. I’m not old enough to be anyone’s sugar daddy.”

My mom is doubled over, laughing, at this point. She thinks she’s hilarious.

“It’s not funny,” I grumble.

“It kind of is.” She wipes her eyes with the back of her hand. “And be happy for your gran. This is the first man she’s shown any interest in since your granddad passed. It’s been ten years, Vaughn.”

“God, it has, hasn’t it?”

I was away, working on my first movie, when he passed. He never even got to see my first film. I’ve always regretted not being there when he died. My granddad was the best kind of man. His family was everything to him.

He was the kind of man I aspire to be. Just like my dad is.

“Your granddad was and always will be the love of your gran’s life. She’s just having some fun in the time she has left. We can’t begrudge her that.”

“Yeah, I get it.” I sigh. “Is Dad okay with it?”

Gran is my dad’s mom. I can only imagine it’d be weird for him.

“Well, he doesn’t exactly have a choice. You know your gran.” She chuckles. “But he wants her to be happy. And Ed’s a good guy.”

Ed. So, that’s his name.

“And where is Ed from?”

“Over in Klamath Falls.”

“Mmhmm,” I say. “Well, I want to meet him before I leave.”

“You will, at the wedding. He’s your gran’s date.”

Well, thank God I did bring Charly with me; otherwise, I would have been the only one flying solo at this wedding.

Charly

“Your family is awesome,” I tell Vaughn as we drive the few minutes over to his house, which is on the same land as his parents’ place. They have a heck of a lot of land.

“Yeah, and they love you,” he says.