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Chapter 22
Finn
I had so much to check off my list of things that I needed to complete in order to make my move to Tabiq. Delivering the news to Murray felt like a weight lifted off my shoulders. I would miss my patients, but that was all. I was finished with Murray having double standards for his staff. If he didn’t change his ways, eventually it would be the patients who suffered. People like him didn’t want to hear it, and I was done trying.
There was one last call that I needed to make and have been avoiding. My parents are loving and supportive, but so far, they thought this trip was about vacationing, not moving.
I dialed the number and my mother answered. “Finn, are you home?”
“No Mother. I’m still in Tabiq.”
“Oh. Your father and I are getting worried. You fly off to a place none of us have ever heard of, and don’t come back. If it wasn’t for your text and calls, I’d have thought something terrible had happened,” she said.
There was no better time than now. “Actually Mother, it’s the opposite. Something unexpected and wonderful has happened.”
“Mo Ghra`, come here. Our son has something important to tell us,” she said as she called out to my father.
After years of marriage, my mother still called my father Mo Ghra`, my love. I have not shared those words with Reesa yes, but she definitely was my Mo Ghra`.
“Okay, we are both here now. What is it you have to tell us?” she asked.
I honestly had no idea what their reaction was going to be. There was only one way to find out. “Mother. Father. I have been offered a position as Chief of Staff at a hospital and will be moving to Tabiq.”
“What? To a place that we could barely find on a map? You have a job. Why go so far and to a country that is so poor? There are other places if you are not happy with your job now. Other hospitals in Ireland,” she stated.
“Yes Mother. I know. But there is only one Reesa Florraz.”
“Who is that?” my father asked.
“The woman that I love. She is my…Mo Ghra`, my heart, my love, and I want to be with her here.” It was the first time I ever said I love her out loud. I’ve thought about it often, but to hear the words flow through my lips, made me want to hang up the phone and to call Reesa immediately. She should’ve heard them first.
Sorry Mo Ghra`. You didn’t hear them first, but I promise you’ll hear them every day from now on.
“Son, you are not joking, are you?” he asked in a serious tone.
“No Father. I have travelled to the other side of the world and found what I have been missing. I would like to bring her to meet you both next week.”
My mother started crying and my father said, “We would like to meet the woman who has stolen my son’s heart. If she is really your love, then Tabiq is the place you need to be.”
“Thank you. I’ll call you in a few days with the details of our arrival.” My mother was still sobbing in the background, and I hoped it was happy tears. “Please tell Mother, I’ll see her soon.”
We said our goodbyes, and I ended the call. Now I had one more thing I needed to do, and it scared the shit out of me.
Reesa had been so busy the last few days that we hardly had time alone. I knew she was in her suite by herself right now, and I needed to make the most of it. All the planning in the world wouldn’t matter if we didn’t see each other.
I grabbed my keycard from my room and headed to hers. With each step I thought that I should be bringing flowers or some sort of gift. But I wasn’t really showing up empty handed. I am bringing the one thing I’ve never given to anyone else. My heart.
Although I have told her many things, talked about her strength, her beauty, her drive, I’ve never spoken about my feelings. Maybe I was being a coward and hoping those words would’ve slipped through those beautiful lips of hers first. But they didn’t. I wasn’t even positive that she loved me too.
Fuck. I might have uprooted and walked away from everything, and she doesn’t feel the same way.
I was just about to knock on her door, when it opened. “Finn, I was just about to head down to your room. Come on in,” she said.
I entered and closed the door. “Was there something you wanted to talk about?” I asked. Like how much you love me and can’t stand us not being together.
“I finished up early today and wanted to see if you were free. Maybe take a walk on the beach or have dinner together,” she said.
Or profess our love and spend the rest of the day in bed making up for lost time.
