Chapter Thirty-Six
Alex
Autumn
“What have you and Delilah decided?” my sister asked, tightening her lips in a line and lasering me with her eyes. That was Holly’s way of trying to look bossy.
“We’ve decided we’re not going to decide until Delilah’s father passes.”
I didn’t add that the uncertainty of that timeline was difficult for me. I was impatient, and I felt a little guilty for feeling impatient. I completely understood Delilah wanting to wait since her father’s cancer was terminal, but I missed her. We’d settled into a cycle of seeing each other roughly every other month with lots and lots of video calls between and daily texts, of course.
It didn’t change that I missed her to the point that my heart ached sometimes.
“What’s his status?” Holly asked, her bossy tone fading.
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