The superstitious part of me thought maybe my Irish grandmother’s spirit somehow could have had a hand in the events of the past three days. That, or she was rolling in her grave.
Either way, binge reading on Kindle was the modern day reincarnation of my Catalan Grandmother’s telenovela habit. There was nothing I loved more than a nice light-hearted rom-com with a happy ending that got my blood flowing and took my mind off work.
I decided tonight, to switch things up, I would go with a darker, more psychological love story. But just as I one-clicked a new romance by Willow Winters and downloaded it to my kindle, my phone buzzed.
I smiled, seeing the pet name I’d put in for Dustin’s phone number.
El Hubs: Cat Dog - are you ready for the interview tomorrow?
I responded with a gif of a dog and a cat playing with each other.
El Hubs: GIF chatting is not acceptable for married couples. Use your words.
Cat: I like GIFs. What are you going to do about it?
El Hubs: You’ll see tomorrow when I turn you into my personal toy. Again.
My skin tingled, but I tried to keep the subject on the interview since it was so important.
Cat: Seriously. I am nervous about tomorrow
El Hubs: Because you haven’t changed your last name yet and they’ll find that suspicious?
Cat: Not that. I just have a weird feeling in my gut. You never know what you’re going to get when you go to immigration.
El Hubs: I’m flying into D.C. tomorrow around two. We got this. No sweat
Cat: If you say so. I thought of a couple more questions today.
El Hubs: Shoot
Cat: 1. Do you like to read and if so which kind of books?
2. What’s your ‘one item?’ Meaning, if there was a fire which item would you save from your house?
3. Are you a morning or a night person?
I typed up my own responses to the questions while I waited for Dustin to respond.
El Hubs: 1. I read nonfiction war novels and biographies. Can’t stand fiction.
2. A picture of me and my papaw, who was the closest thing to a father I had.
3. I. Am. Batman.
You?
Cat: LOL @ 3.
1- I like romance novels + light reads (basically the polar opposite of dense medical texts).
2- The Catalan language bible I own passed down from my mother and grandmother.
3- I am an early riser.
El Hubs: Glad we’ve got this all under control. See you at the airport tomorrow
I wasn’t ready to say goodnight, and my insides tightened reading over his text. There was something that seemed a little too businesslike in his last message.
