Alex was curious what he’d do.
When he moved to get his phone, he held it.
“And a video call. I swear she has some otherworldly gift,” he stated.
Alex wasn’t sure what that meant, but he was nervous about Alice. That was Corbin’s mother, and what did he know about mothers?
When he answered, her face appeared on the screen. Alex could see her, from the angle, but she couldn’t see him. He fully expected Corbin not to let her know what he was doing.
“Hey, Alice.”
She looked concerned.
“I felt bad after our conversation, where I told you to stop mourning Will and move on. Are you angry with me?” she asked.
He laughed.
“No, Mom, I’m not angry. What I am is astounded, once more, by your horrible timing.”
She lifted a brow.
“Sass? To what do I owe this?” she asked.
Corbin hoped Alex was ready, because he came with lots of baggage. Mostly, it was a five-foot-seven seventy-year-old woman who couldn’t mind her business if her life depended on it.
“I’m in bed with a man.”
She grinned.
“Is he a sexy man? Do tell, Corby. Better yet, show me. Don’t make me find you.”
He laughed.
That was about right.
Then, he moved his phone.
Alex appeared on the screen, and Alice checked him out because Corbin was her son, and Mothers knew best.
“Mom, this is Alex, and I’m going to marry him one day, so mind your bullshit. I swear to God, I’ll put you in a home if you ruin the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”
She laughed.
“Oh, okay, big, scary man. I’m shaking in my lace-less sneakers. You told me,” she said.
Alex was absolutely silent.
“So, you’re the partner I’ve heard so much about. I have only one question.”
Alex wasn’t sure how to deal with this, or what she was going to say.
“Sure. What’s your question?”
Alice being Alice went there.
“Was it good for you?”
Corbin began laughing because his mother was a nightmare on a good day, but harmless.
