Even though I’d met her and Jesse seemed happy, I was still worried. “Jesse’s mom is back,” I blurted out as we drove, not bothering to segway into the conversation at all.“Excuse me?” he asked and I knew he had no idea what I was talking about.“While I was in Boston he called me and told me she’d just shown up. He hasn’t seen or heard anything from her since he was two.”“This is a good thing then, right?”“I don’t know. I was hoping you could tell me,” I sighed. “I mean, she just showed up out of the blue.”“And you question her intentions.”“Well, yeah, I guess. Don’t you?”“What do you think she wants?”“I don’t know,” I said quickly. “Something must be going on if she just decided to appear out of thin air.”“Maybe she genuinely wants to be there for her son since he lost his father,” Matt said, his words causing a feeling of guilt to enter my psyche for a moment for having doubted Marlene. It went away quickly though.“Maybe she doesn’t,”
