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The ghost vanished, but the smell of lavender remained.
“Come on, let’s go eat. And you can update me on your fake dating.”
“I’m never do it again,” she said. “It hurts as bad as real dating when it ends.”
Two hours later, she dropped Desiree off at the Burnett Ranch and began the long drive home.
Her phone rang and she saw it was Adrian. Why was he calling her? It was almost ten o’clock at night.
She didn’t answer because she was driving. The road was dark and windy and she had to watch for deer.
When she pulled up in the parking lot of the apartment, she saw his truck sitting there.
He got out and met her at her car.
“Come on, we’ve got to go,” he said. “I’ve been trying to reach you for two hours.”
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s your mother. We need to get to the hospital. They took her by ambulance about seven o’clock this evening.”
Fear spiraled through her and she ran to his truck. He helped her inside and then he sped down the road.
“I’m sorry. I was driving and I didn’t want to answer while I was on that road from the Burnett’s,” she said.
He nodded.
“What happened with Mom,” she asked. “She was at my house earlier today and she complained of feeling tired.”
“She collapsed while she was making dinner. Blake found her on the kitchen floor and called 911.”
Terror gripped her. She couldn’t lose her mother. Not now. Not after everything with Adrian.
They reached the small hospital and they both jumped out of the truck and she ran inside with Adrian by her side.
The person at the desk advised that her mother was in the ER. In the waiting area, all of Adrian’s brothers were sitting there, looking out of place. They all loved her mother and that warmed her heart. What would it be like to be a part of his family?
In some ways, they already were, but if she married Adrian, it would be official.
“We haven’t heard a thing,” Blake said, a worried expression on his face. “She’s been back there several hours now.”
“Let me see if I can find out anything,” she said, walking up to a desk.
The nurse led her back to her mother and she grabbed Adrian’s hand for him to come with her. The touch of his fingers wrapped in hers gave her strength, and she glanced at him. He still wore a worried expression.
“Mom,” she cried rushing over to her.
“I’m all right,” she said. “It wasn’t another stroke. My blood work is not looking good and they’re going to keep me overnight to stabilize me. I knew I was tired and not feeling good today.”
Her mother glanced at Adrian by her side. “Sorry about dinner tonight.”
“Susan, I don’t give a damn about dinner. You scared us so bad. As long as you’re all right, that’s all that matters.”
She smiled at him and then she gazed at her daughter.
“If something happens to me, you know where everything is right?”
Terror spiraled through Madison. She couldn’t lose her mother, not now.
