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Her grandmother had continued to work and moved into a bigger house, since she’d been living in an apartment during those early years when Vanna had lived with her mother.
The woman she was today was completely thanks to Granny and the handful of friends her grandmother had who’d been like aunties to her.
Anxiety was a sneaky bitch.
One of the many things about Gail that had added to Vanna’s annoyance for the woman was her ability to go from deceptively nice to outright-bitch mode in the blink of an eye.
Why did she feel compelled to do all the things? To take care of all the issues? To make it—whatever it was in any given scenario—all better?
The one thing that Vanna had been unable to—despite all the therapy and advice on how to do it—reconcile with. Disappointment. Disillusionment. Rejection.
Her only love for so long that she didn’t know how or if she’d ever have those feelings again. And he’d broken her heart. For the second time in her life, the person she’d needed to love and pour into her the most, hadn’t. And that reality almost crushed her.
All praise to Vanna for keeping a good credit score, for buying a house before she was thirty years old, for getting a promotion at work, for just breathing.
He broke parts of her she’d never revealed to anyone else, and now she had to be the one to make sure he had a respectable homegoing service, when what she really should’ve coordinated was the pine box he would be put in and tossed into an unmarked grave.
“Stay the hell away from my granddaughter after today. Don’t call her, don’t text her, don’t even speak her name. If you do, I swear I’ll come to your house and beat you like you stole somethin’. You hear me?”
“People with no money to pay for funerals but still wanna flap off at the mouth,” Granny snapped. “Get on my nerves!”
“Then we shouldn’t be standing here like we’re about to have a picnic with the sonofabitch,” Granny said,
“And don’t think I can’t see how much of a coincidence this is that he floats up in the water dead as a doornail one day, and not a week later some dusty cops show up and put you in cuffs.”
Being charged with conspiracy to embezzle, she could get some crazy fines, probation, or a combination of all the above. What in the world was her life now?
