I Nannied for a Widower Who Plays a Voicemail Meant for Me novel · Chapter 10 of 24
Chapter 10: Four Words
"I said I'd tell you tomorrow, and I lied, so I'm telling you now," I said.
It was Tuesday night, Posy was asleep, and I had waited for him in the mudroom with the door shut.
Jude stood across the small tiled room from me in his work shirt, still smelling of the wharf.
He had texted Lena that afternoon, asking for the key back.
She'd answered with a heart.
"Go ahead," he said.
"Saturday you let her call me the help in front of your neighbors.
"I stood there holding your gravy.
"That same morning I was bent over your chart table, and you said I was perfect."
I held his stare.
"That's what it did to me, to hear the other thing at your table."
His throat moved.
"I didn't have a speech ready."
"I didn't need a speech.
"I needed one sentence.
"She's Bridie.
"Two words, Jude.
"You gave me a hand on my knee under a tablecloth, in the dark, where nobody could see it."
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