They were silent for five minutes and then she heard her grandmother’s phone ringing.
Her grandmother pulled it out of her pocket and frowned. “It’s your sister.”
“I should have asked how much she’s bugging you.”
“More than normal, but it didn’t help I posted a few pictures on Facebook. I shouldn’t have.”
“You absolutely should have shared your vacation with your friends. You can answer it. I don’t care.”
Her grandmother put it on speaker. “Hi, Sandy. What’s going on?”
“When are you coming back?”
“Saturday night,” her grandmother said. “Why?”
“Oh. I need someone to watch the kids. Mom and Dad have a party to go to. It’s only the baby. Ashton and Mila are with their fathers.”
She always rolled her eyes when she heard the plural version of her sister’s baby daddies.
“You’ll have to find someone else for Dutton or pay someone. Sorry. I won’t get home until close to eight.”
“Can’t you change your flight?” Sandy asked. “I want to go out with friends and Mom and Dad are leaving at seven. If you got home earlier, then they’d drop Dutton off.”
“No,” Saylor said. She didn’t care that she was interrupting the call. “Grandma is on vacation and we aren’t changing her flight so you can go out and find a new guy.”
“What do you freaking know about it?” Sandy asked. “You never date. When was the last time you had a guy between your legs? It’s probably sealed up tight now.”
“Sandra Marie!” her grandmother said. “Did you forget I’m on this call too? If you think talking to your sister that way is going to make me want to do any favors for you, you’ve got another thing coming.”
“You always give Saylor everything. It’s not fair.”
“It’s not about me,” she said. “It’s about Grandma and her getting some time off and visiting. Get over yourself.”
“Don’t be such a bitch,” Sandy said. “Grandma, will you please change your flight and come home earlier so I can go out?”
“No,” her grandmother said. “Absolutely not and I’m appalled you even thought to ask. There is no way in hell your parents know you did this.”
“I don’t have to tell them what I’m doing,” Sandy argued. “But be that way.” Her sister hung up.
“Wow. She’s gotten worse to call and do that,” she said.
“You don’t know the half of it. It never ends. Since I retired, she thinks I’m an open market for her to just drop the kids off. Half the time I see her on the door camera and hide and don’t answer.”
Her jaw dropped. “She doesn’t even call, just comes over with the kids?”
“Yep.”
Her shoulders drooped some. She didn’t know her grandmother was getting stuck with her sister’s kids too.
“You should have said something.”
“I can handle it. And this vacation was the perfect getaway. Thank you again.”
The two of them walked back to the house and she saw Rowan outside waving to them.
They got closer and he gave her a one-armed hug and kiss. “Sorry. I had to take care of something. I should be good the rest of the day if you want to do something.”
“I’ll be back,” her grandmother said. “Just running to the bathroom.”
