Tanner texted me the next day telling me he had been caught up with work, but I hadn't believed it. Something just told me it wasn't that. But I was meeting my mum for lunch today, so I was trying not to think about it. I parked up at a local restaurant. Mum had wanted afternoon tea and apparently this was the best place for it. When I walked in she was already sitting down, so when a waiter came to me, I told him I already saw my table.
Mum looked lost in her own thoughts as I made my way over to her. It took her until I was pulling the chair out to come out of her own little bubble. She looked up at me and smiled, her smile not quite right. Which put me on alert.
As soon as I sat down, the waiter brought over drinks for us. Which mum must have ordered. So, I had yet to even say a wor
