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“I think we need to hit the road.”
“Actually…” Nora frowned. “I texted you earlier, Louise. I guess you haven’t read it yet. They canceled the jump for this morning due to high winds. The company said they’d give me an update by lunchtime to let us know if there’ll be an afternoon jump, but if there is, it wouldn’t be until four.”
“Well then…” Gram turned to me. “I’m breathing, and I’ve got a full face of makeup on. So you can take us out to breakfast, preferably someplace that has Kahlua for my coffee.”
I smiled. “You got it.”
“I think I’ll stay behind,” Nora said. “I have some work to catch up on.”
“You’ve gotta eat. Might as well let my grandson foot the bill. Besides, maybe he can show you he’s not as much of a jackass as he seems over text.”
It looked like Nora was going to try to bow out again, but my grandmother was a hard woman to say no to.
“Come on.” Gram motioned toward the lobby. “We were supposed to be on our jump, so there’s nothing you have to do that can’t wait an hour.”
Nora forced a smile. “Sure. Let’s go.”
***
“I’ll take an eggs benedict and a coffee with a shot of Kahlua,” Gram said to the waiter.
He smiled. “I’m afraid we don’t have Kahlua. We don’t have any liquor, actually.”
“That’s fine.” My grandmother patted her purse. “Got some in here. You can pretend you don’t see me spiking our drinks. I wouldn’t take the sale away from you, but I don’t expect you to take the happiness from me, either.”
The waiter chuckled. “I won’t see anything.”
Nora was next to place her order. While she spoke, I zoned in on her lips moving—the lips I’d imagined wrapped around my cock while I took care of myself in the shower this morning. It hadn’t been easy to behave last night, especially after I realized my room was right down the hall from hers. But when I’d paid the bar tab and saw how many glasses of wine Nora had consumed, I couldn’t do it. I might be a man some women regretted, but it was never going to be because they hadn’t had the capacity to say no.
“Sir?” I looked up to find the waiter with an expectant face.
Nora’s sly grin made me think she knew where my head had just been.
I cleared my throat. “I’ll have the eggs benedict and a coffee with cream, please.” After the waiter walked away, I laid my napkin across my lap. “So how do you two know each other? I don’t remember you mentioning Nora before this trip.”
Gram patted Nora’s hand. “She lives in my building.”
“At least the blog makes sense now.” Gram’s partner in crime had been blogging about their trip since the beginning, taking videos of my grandmother doing all kinds of crazy shit. The page was calledLive Like You’re Dying.
“What do you mean?” Nora asked.
“Well, I had assumed you were older. I don’t know too many people my grandmother’s age who blog.” I looked at Gram. “No offense.”
Nora folded her arms across her chest. “Well, if she’s not offended, I am. There isn’t a certain age for women to do things. Why is it only a young person can blog or go skydiving?”
Oh Jesus. Nowthiswas the woman I’d been texting with.
“I didn’t say older people couldn’t do those things. I just said I don’t know too many who do.”
“Did you ever stop to think that’s because narrow-minded younger people are ageist and discourage their family members from living their lives to the fullest? When they should be encouraging them? Believe it or not, your grandmother didn’t have to go to the library for a technology class in order to figure out how to block you.”
I looked at my grandmother.
She grinned. “Don’t look at me for help. You’ve been digging your grave with Eleanor ever since I gave you her number to use in an emergency.”
“Speaking of those wonderful texts we’ve exchanged,” Nora said. “The next time you’re rude to me or demand I pass along a message to your grandmother—particularly one that you know damn well will upset her—I’m going to block you, too.”
Normally if someone spoke to me like that, I’d be salivating, waiting for my turn to rip them a new asshole. But for some crazy reason, all I could imagine was arguing with this woman in private—then fucking the attitude right out of her.
