Chapter 13
“I’m headed out to see mom, Shichu.” I grab my keys off the counter and slip my phone in one pocket and my wallet in the other. My grandmother comes around the corner of the kitchen doorway, a single brow raised.
“Just your mother?”
“Don’t start grandma,” I tell her dryly.
She shrugs. “It’s not my business, but you seem to be spending a lot of time with her. You haven’t bothered to introduce her to your mother … or me for that matter.”
I walk over to her, lean down, and wrap her in a hug. “I’m not going to rush things with her. She seems …,” I take a breath, trying to pick the right words, “fragile. Not all of the time, but sometimes, when she doesn’t know I’m watching, I see she is hiding some type of pain.”
She reaches up as my mother has always done, pats my face, and l
