The Billionaire's Embrace (The Silver Cross Club) - Plot & Excerpts
She didn’t look like she had slept at all. “There’s coffee,” she said. “Thanks,” I said. I poured myself a cup and sat across the table from her. It was strange, after so long, to be back in this house where I grew up, sharing coffee with my mother like the intervening years had never happened. But if she didn’t want to talk about the past, I wasn’t going to bring it up. “You should get some sleep. I’ll sit vigil for a while.” She shook her head. “Maybe later. I have some cooking to do.” “I can do that, too,” I said. “Oh, you still know Filipino cooking? You haven’t forgotten everything?” She scoffed. “I doubt it.” That stung. “I still cook for myself,” I said. “Every recipe you ever taught me.” “Well,” she said. She exhaled and stubbed out her cigarette. “At least you’re not on drugs, or in prison. It could be worse.” That surprised me. I would have thought abandoning my family ranked me much lower on the scale than someone like my cousin Freddy, who—as I learned the night before—was doing six to ten in Chino but still called his mom every weekend.
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