“What are you doing here?” Nora asked. “Is something wrong with your mom? Your grandma?”
Daisy shook her head. “Jonathan had an accident.”
Nora didn’t react, her expression flat for a full second before she blinked rapidly like she was trying to wake herself up. “What?”
“He ...” Daisy shook her head, trying to get her thoughts together. “Power tools. He’s going to be fine.” Well, he might lose a finger, but he wouldn’t die. “I had to come get the kids, they were with him and ... well.” She frowned. “Why are you here?”
“Ben. He had an accident while he was hiking.”
Goose bumps rose on Daisy’s arms, and right then she could see why Nora had paused like that. Why she’d looked shell shocked.
This couldn’t be a coincidence. It couldn’t be. There was karma. David getting caught being a cheater, that was karma. Dramatic karma, but karma all the same. Ben falling down a mountain? Unless he was getting a blow job at the time, that wasn’t karma. That was something more.
“Is he . . . ?”
“He’s going to be okay.” Nora’s eyes were glassy, her voice distant. “He’ll be okay.”
Sam didn’t say anything, but he moved closer to Nora and put his arm around her. It was a possessive gesture, one that spoke volumes about them. Volumes Nora herself had never spoken, but that were becoming more and more apparent.
“Take care of your kids,” Nora said. “I’ll see you at work tomorrow.”
“If I make it in.”
“You know Aggie would let the kids come in.”
It’s true, she would.
She felt reluctant to leave Nora, but she knew she was taken care of as long as she was with Sam. “You can come over later if you want to,” Daisy said.
“I ... I think I’m okay.”
Daisy nodded and gathered the kids.
She got the kids loaded into her car, and Zach followed in his outrageously expensive vehicle, adding to the out-of-body of it all.
Two of the three cheating husbands were in the hospital after having spells put on them. It would seem like a coincidence even without the magic. Now it seemed ... Well, it seemed like much more than a coincidence.
She pulled into the driveway, and Zach pulled in behind her. Her chest went tight, and she got out of the car, opening the back door and starting to work on Alden’s seat belt.
Avery and Wren were out of the car like a shot.
“I can unlock the door, Daisy.”
She looked over her shoulder at Zach. “Um. Sure. My key is in my purse on the front seat.”
She heard Zach getting the keys. “Come on, guys. Have you had dinner?” Zach was actually talking to the kids.
“No,” Avery said, sniffing. “I’m hungry.”
“Of course you are, it’s getting really late. What’s your favorite restaurant?”
Daisy’s movements slowed, and she was basically just standing there hovering over Alden’s car seat as Zach and the kids moved out of earshot.
“Mama.” Alden tapped her on the nose, and she laughed.
“Sorry!”
“Are you sleepy?” Alden asked.
