Chapter 46
AlexaAfter a few more days in Oklahoma, Mom began to manage more around my help than with it. I headed back to Austin relieved to be extraneous.
I made myself useful back home by agreeing to keep Poppy for a night so Toby and Sarah could celebrate their anniversary with a romantic dinner.
At six thirty, I closed up my business office and walked next door to the sandwich shop. Bells on the door jangled as I swung the door open. Toby appeared from the back, trailed by the man I’d been ducking since my phone conversation with Adam.
In the last day, we had yet another contentious conversation over Adam’s joining me while I babysat. I mentioned that Adam might come over, and Sarah had asked that he not be there.
“It’s nothing personal, but we don’t know him. I’m sure he’s fine,
