heads.
“Mom. What’s the matter? Are you OK?” Erin got right to the point. She was the one who suggested we wait to eat and talk first. “Mom, you guys look like someone died. You’re scaring me.”
“No, honey, no. I’m so sorry. We’re just tired out that’s all. It’s been a busy week.”
“OK, you wanted us home to talk with us so talk already! The suspense is too much!” Kait cried out.
Jame began, “Girls, you don’t know the whole story about your mother and me but cutting to the chase, I came looking for her because I have cancer and I wanted to try to make things right with her.”
“Oh Jame, cancer, how bad is it?” Erin asked with a tremble in her voice.
“I go in for surgery this Thursday and we’ll know more after that. Hopefully it will be good news and we can put it behind us. But I want you to know that I love your mother very, very much and I’ve never been happier.”
“Are you guys getting married?” Kait asked.
“No,” I said quickly.
“Maybe,” Jame answered just as fast.
I looked over at Jame stunned. “We never discussed that. It’s only been a short time.”
Erin clapped her hands. ”I knew it! Ha, Kait, I win the bet!”
“What bet?” I was still reeling from Jame’s marriage hint. Too fast. Too fast.
“I bet Kait that you were talking about getting married and that’s what you wanted to tell us.”
“No one wins any bet,” I interrupted. “We haven’t talked about it. There’s too much else going on.”
“Yeah, like I moved all my stuff in yesterday so I officially live here now with your mom, the love of my life. Hope that’s all right with both of you.”
Erin and Kait jumped up and hugged both of us. Our mood lightened a little as we went into the kitchen for lunch and to fill them in on all the details of Jame’s cancer and surgery.
After the girl headed back to college, Jame and I started unpacking his boxes strewn all over the garage.
“Where will put all this stuff?” I shook my head at the piles. There were books, an extra computer, more shoes (I mean how many pairs of shoes does a businessman need? A surprising Jame-discovery, he loves expensive shoes!), memorabilia, four basketballs, sneakers galore.
“It’s not that much. It can stay out here in the garage for now. We have more important things to do.” Jame dropped the box he was moving.
“Come here, my love.” He pulled me over to him. We were both dusty and sweaty, but he peeled off my clothes and then his and made love to me right there standing up in the garage. Marymotherofgod , he was sexy and sure made things hot and exciting. Jame had a way of filling up life.
Chapter 31
The beginning of the week flew by as we prepared for Jame’s surgery. We had lists and more lists. Jame only had his mother left after his father died 10 years ago. He let his mother know about the surgery but we had decided that he was not going to tell her about us. Or Michael. When I told him what she had said to me on that fateful phone call that, “You knew what you were getting into, Cath,” he said she didn’t deserve to know about our happiness. She was in South Carolina and wouldn’t come up anyway.
Erin, who attended Rutgers University right there in New Brunswick where the Cancer Center was, skipped classes to sit with me in the surgery waiting room. She didn’t want me to be alone. Thank you, God, for my precious daughters. What a gift Sam left me with!
I was with Jame as he was getting prepped. He seemed calm under the circumstances but a little pale. He grabbed my hand, “Cath, this isn’t like a death-bed request, but I really want to talk about us getting married.”
He sure knows how to push the right buttons. Did he think I couldn’t resist a man going in for serious surgery?
“Don’t start with that now,
“Mom. What’s the matter? Are you OK?” Erin got right to the point. She was the one who suggested we wait to eat and talk first. “Mom, you guys look like someone died. You’re scaring me.”
“No, honey, no. I’m so sorry. We’re just tired out that’s all. It’s been a busy week.”
“OK, you wanted us home to talk with us so talk already! The suspense is too much!” Kait cried out.
Jame began, “Girls, you don’t know the whole story about your mother and me but cutting to the chase, I came looking for her because I have cancer and I wanted to try to make things right with her.”
“Oh Jame, cancer, how bad is it?” Erin asked with a tremble in her voice.
“I go in for surgery this Thursday and we’ll know more after that. Hopefully it will be good news and we can put it behind us. But I want you to know that I love your mother very, very much and I’ve never been happier.”
“Are you guys getting married?” Kait asked.
“No,” I said quickly.
“Maybe,” Jame answered just as fast.
I looked over at Jame stunned. “We never discussed that. It’s only been a short time.”
Erin clapped her hands. ”I knew it! Ha, Kait, I win the bet!”
“What bet?” I was still reeling from Jame’s marriage hint. Too fast. Too fast.
“I bet Kait that you were talking about getting married and that’s what you wanted to tell us.”
“No one wins any bet,” I interrupted. “We haven’t talked about it. There’s too much else going on.”
“Yeah, like I moved all my stuff in yesterday so I officially live here now with your mom, the love of my life. Hope that’s all right with both of you.”
Erin and Kait jumped up and hugged both of us. Our mood lightened a little as we went into the kitchen for lunch and to fill them in on all the details of Jame’s cancer and surgery.
After the girl headed back to college, Jame and I started unpacking his boxes strewn all over the garage.
“Where will put all this stuff?” I shook my head at the piles. There were books, an extra computer, more shoes (I mean how many pairs of shoes does a businessman need? A surprising Jame-discovery, he loves expensive shoes!), memorabilia, four basketballs, sneakers galore.
“It’s not that much. It can stay out here in the garage for now. We have more important things to do.” Jame dropped the box he was moving.
“Come here, my love.” He pulled me over to him. We were both dusty and sweaty, but he peeled off my clothes and then his and made love to me right there standing up in the garage. Marymotherofgod , he was sexy and sure made things hot and exciting. Jame had a way of filling up life.
Chapter 31
The beginning of the week flew by as we prepared for Jame’s surgery. We had lists and more lists. Jame only had his mother left after his father died 10 years ago. He let his mother know about the surgery but we had decided that he was not going to tell her about us. Or Michael. When I told him what she had said to me on that fateful phone call that, “You knew what you were getting into, Cath,” he said she didn’t deserve to know about our happiness. She was in South Carolina and wouldn’t come up anyway.
Erin, who attended Rutgers University right there in New Brunswick where the Cancer Center was, skipped classes to sit with me in the surgery waiting room. She didn’t want me to be alone. Thank you, God, for my precious daughters. What a gift Sam left me with!
I was with Jame as he was getting prepped. He seemed calm under the circumstances but a little pale. He grabbed my hand, “Cath, this isn’t like a death-bed request, but I really want to talk about us getting married.”
He sure knows how to push the right buttons. Did he think I couldn’t resist a man going in for serious surgery?
“Don’t start with that now,
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