“I know,” I replied. “That’s exactly why I want to help.”
Her mother’s surgery was successful.
I assumed that afterward, Emily would simply return to her own life.
And for a while, that was exactly what happened.
I helped her finish the accounting courses she had abandoned years earlier. She found a new job and stopped working at my house.
Pregnancy & Maternity
The first day she did not come to work, the house felt strangely quiet.
I told myself I had simply gotten used to having her around.
But a week later, Emily called me.
“Mom wants to see you. She says she wouldn’t be here today without you.”
They came over that Sunday.
The three of us sat on the patio, drank coffee, and talked for hours.