Chapter 6
A week after my dinner with Douglas, I decided to surprise my mother by showing up at her house Saturday morning and taking her out for breakfast. When I saw her Subaru parked in the driveway and no sign of Paul’s BMW, I breathed a sigh of relief. Doing drive-bys of my mother’s house to make sure she was home alone wasn’t something I enjoyed, but I just couldn’t take the chance of running into Paul. Plus, I didn’t want her to think I had an issue with her boyfriend even though I did. I thought I’d done a pretty good job of convincing her that I didn’t dislike Paul because, truthfully, I didn’t dislike him. I liked him a lot…and that was the problem.
I parked my car behind my mother’s and used my keys to go into the house. Everything was quiet and I wondered if my mother had gon
