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Tru was looking at me with dreamy eyes.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” I asked Tru.
“Because I just think it’s so freakin’ sweet that you’re so in love with our grandbaby,” she admitted. “And that you’re hiding in here like a loser because you’re afraid Viddy or Trance will find you and steal him away.”
I shrugged. “They got to see him yesterday because they stayed over at their house. It’s my turn.”
“This quarantine has been hell,” Sebastian grumbled. “I’m glad we’re opening back up a little because I can finally see these kiddos. The Texas/Louisiana border being closed down to thru traffic has really sucked.”
Agreed.
Totally.
Not only had we missed seeing our grandson, I’d missed seeing my daughter, too.
I was glad to finally have her back in my arms.
“I heard that they walked in on you pantsless again today,” Baylee drawled, looking at Tru.
Tru shrugged. “They should’ve knocked.”
We all laughed at that.
“Yes, we should have,” Ford drawled as he walked into the room. His eyes went automatically to his kid, and his shoulders seemed to loosen. “You got him?”
I gave him a thumbs up.
“Then I’m going to steal Ashe away for a couple of hours. My parents are…somewhere I’d rather not discuss right now. Needless to say, you probably have a solid hour with him before they come looking.” Ford grimaced.
I rolled my eyes. “No skin off my nose. Take all the time you need.”
Then Ford was gone, grinning as he left.
“It’s weird,” Sebastian said into the quiet. “I always used to think that being a grandfather would be weird. But it feels like the most natural thing in the world.”
I looked down at my grandson, who had my hair.
“Feels like the world is sitting right in my hands. Exactly like it used to feel when I held my own babies.”
Book:Charge to my Line
CHAPTER 28
It’s probably my age that tricks people into thinking I’m an adult.
-Mia’s secret thoughts
MIA
“Wonderful,” Tai stared hard at the call out on his phone. “Just wonderful.”
“What are you grumbling about?” I asked from where I was folding laundry on the couch across from him.
“We just got paged for a man who thought he would,” he started to read the phone’s message, “try to see if Clorox bleach and rubbing alcohol really did make chloroform when they were mixed together. Wife says he passed out while making it, and she’s scared to go in the room because she doesn’t want to pass out, too. Apparently, they saw this on Facebook about mixing common household chemicals together,’” Tai grumbled, his eyes coming to me. “I’m not going.”
Tai had retired from the Kilgore Fire Department five weeks ago. Two weeks before all this crazy Corona virus crap had started to take place.
Now he volunteered on the volunteer fire department in the small city we lived in right outside of Kilgore.
