“Then it sounds like you’ve got a plan.”
“Always. I know many don’t think I take much in life seriously.”
“We didn’t,” West said. “When you were younger. Now, it’s never a worry of mine.”
“You’ve never said that before.”
“Maybe you didn’t need to hear it until now.”
Damn, it wasn’t just his mother who knew her kids, but his brother who knew his siblings so well.
15
BE NORMAL
In the week that Saylor had been home, she’d barely been able to sit her ass down to watch TV let alone make a phone call to her grandmother.
She’d gotten in from her flight around six, ran to the store to get food for the week. Not a ton as she’d be moving in two weeks, but she needed some things.
Then she’d unpacked, started her laundry, and sat at her laptop to update her resume.
The next morning, she got up early, looked for jobs and applied for several in Long Beach. She wouldn’t look outside that area unless she had to. Best to stay close to Rowan’s house.
She worked six days and today was her first day off. It was time to fill her grandmother in on her next move, like she always did.
“Hi, Saylor,” her grandmother said when she answered. Her grandmother retired last year, but at sixty-eight was healthy and active and not always home.
She’d scheduled the time of this call to have a long conversation.
“Grandma,” she said. “I miss you.”
“You could have seen me and chose not to.”
She heard the laughter over that. She still struggled with giving up that visit. She only had a week to go before she had to move, not that it was long of a flight from Long Beach to Phoenix. Nonstop was ninety minutes. She could take a quick trip and was considering it before she started a new job.
But she didn’t want Rowan to get upset if she moved there and then left right away.
And if he got upset, then would he be the guy for her?
Stupid question when she got home yesterday and had a delivery.
She had no clue who sent her anything, but she opened it and saw the big gift box of candy. Not just chocolate but gummies. Lots of her treatment foods, protein bars, and nuts with it.
A note from Rowan saying:Road trip food. Carbs and protein to get you through.
She wasn’t looking forward to the twenty-hour drive from Des Moines to Long Beach. But she couldn’t get a moving company scheduled in time to make the trip and she could fit everything in her SUV anyway.
It’s not like she was taking furniture with her. Her apartment had been furnished and what she might have bought was cheap and she’d leave it behind.
“I’m sorry. There is so much going on I’ve got to fill you in on.”
“Oh no. That doesn’t sound good. Let me get comfortable.”
“It’s not bad. I promise. It’s actually good, but you might not be happy with it.”
Her grandmother sighed. “Where are you transferring to this time?”
“California.”
