CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
Kate tried to tell herself that it was silly to be so nervous about having lunch with her daughter, but the nerves remained. She checked her watch and saw that it was 12:05, an entire five minutes past the time they were supposed to meet. Kate did her best to remind herself that Melissa was perpetually late and the five minutes meant nothing.
She supposed she was so nervous because the talk she planned to have with Melissa was one she should have had years ago—probably before Melissa had been married. But Kate knew she had never been the most insightful parent. Hell, she’d put off the birds and the bees speech so long that Michael, her late husband, had ended up having it with her…and that had been only after they’d discovered Melissa had been having s*x at the age o
