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“No, I think he’s avoiding your parents for my sake.”
“Why? They’re not mad at him.”
“He’s mad atthem. He doesn’t want to say anything out of line.”
I sigh.Another strained relationship.“It’s our first Thanksgiving together as a couple, we should be together.” JP told his mother shortly after everything happened in the very off chance my mother told her during one of their lunches. But unfortunately, my mom has been avoiding JP’s mom as well. But I think that’s more out of “what can I say to the mother of the man I’m so angry at?”My mother was raised to be very respectful of her elders and disrespecting Ella Price would have my grandparents turning over in their graves.
Ella was—well, I’m not sure how she took it. JP told her without me and he’d only told me that she took it better than my parentswhich is really not saying much.
“Maybe I could go with you to your mom’s?” I ask.
“I would love that but I know you don’t really want to.”
“I want to be with you.” I purse my lips, and he smiles before planting a kiss on my lips.
“I’m going to swing by the hospital today. Let them know I’m ready to come back after the holiday.”
“Which holiday?”
He raises an eyebrow curiously. “Thanksgiving…?”
I pout. “Because I was kind of hoping you meant like Christmas? I mean New Year!” I know all too well what Jacob’s job entails and while he typically gets home at decent hours not working into the wee hours, I do know that giving surgeons off on holidays isn’t always a luxury the hospital can afford.
“You want me to wait another seven weeks?” He chuckles. “I’ve already been off for a month.”
“And what a great month it’s been, right? Lots of sexy time with me.” I shimmy and his eyes find my chest instantly as they shake in my La Perla bra. “And just think, in December I’ll be out of class and that means evenmoresexy time.”
He takes a step forward and pulls the wand out of my hand and sets it down before pulling me into his arms and running his nose down my neck. “I would love that. I’ll see what I can do.” He places a hot kiss on my neck and drags his tongue upward until it finds my mouth giving me a kiss that makes my knees weak. When he pulls away, my eyes immediately drop to his groin and then back to his eyes. “Hmm, I thought you didn’t have time?” He winks before he backs out of the room with a cocky grin on his face.
I let out a deep breath as I stand in front of the door to my parents’ house. It’s the first time I’ve set foot inside but we needed to talk and I couldn’t run the risk of them not answering my phone calls. It’s after six, so I know they’re home, not to mention, I see their cars in the driveway. When I open the door, it’s quiet and I frown because in the twenty-two years I’ve been alive, this house has never been quiet. I push through the front door and make my way into the living room where I see my mom lying on the couch taking a nap. Underneath a cashmere blanket, she looks so peaceful and I wish I didn’t have to wake her. I take a few steps when her eyes flutter open and she gasps in surprise.
“Whitney,” she says, putting a hand over her chest. “You scared me.”
“Sorry.” I wince. “Where’s Dad?”
“Ummm, upstairs, maybe? He was on a call, and I wanted to take a nap.”My mother never napped in the middle of the day and certainly not three days before Thanksgiving. It doesn’t even smell like she’s cooking anything.
“I’m surprised you’re not already cooking.” My eyes dart to the kitchen.
She sits up. “Oh. Yeah, we decided not to do anything this year.”
“What!?” I gasp in shock. “Why? You love Thanksgiving and holidays and tradition.”
“Well… we’re just taking a break this year.”
I let out a sigh. “This is about me and JP, right?”
“It’s about a lot of things. No one is speaking and—”
I interrupt, not wanting to entertain the narrative that I didn’t want to speak to them. “You’re not speaking tome, Mom, and Mason feels terrible about the fight with Dad.” I shake my head. “But this all stems from me.”
“It’s a lot to take in, Whit.”
“Mom, I fell in love.”
“With someone old enough to be your father. Someone that was actuallylikeyour father. I know you think that this is all about you and him but it’s bigger and you know that which is why you kept it from us for so long. This is… almost thirty years of friendship. Family. Jacob was the most important relationship your father and I had other than with each other and the two of you kind of wrecked that.”
“That’s not fair.”
