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Max could read me better than anyone. He knew what I was thinking before I did half the time.
“Barb thinks maybe it’s time to let someone else win, but I don’t think I can do it. I like being the best—what can I say?”
She grabs the towel from me and dries her hands. “You know that unkindness just makes you get old before your time.” “That’s true,” Dad calls from the living room. “Rots your bones and makes you constipated! Look at your Aunt June! She looks like she’s at least eighty because she’s such a terrible person. And she’s younger than me!”
But I feel conflicted. This feels like my own mother chose my ex-boyfriend over me. And after the way Max and I ended, that hurts. And I feel betrayed that no one told me.
Distance and time bring an unwanted clarity.
All of the feelings I’d convinced myself I no longer had are back, and all I can think about is how much I’ve missed her.
She takes a step toward me, and my breath catches at her nearness. “Please. Just, don’t mess with my heart, Max.”
As she is shutting the door on me, she ends with, “You already shattered it once.”
My mom was a big believer in giving things a chance, a second chance, even a third and a fourth. She said grace was like that, and we should always give grace in abundance. Even to ourselves.
My mom made a point of telling me I’d regret this one day, but that day hasn’t come. My job is everything to me. And I don’t need a guy messing that up.
