Page 120 of Oh No! There's an Incubus in my Hot Spring
“Now you’re thinking,” I say. “What will you do with the extra money?”
She beams. “Buy my granddaughter everything she wants.”
“What if it’s a grandson?” I ask.
“It’ll be a granddaughter. I can feel it already,” she says, eyes distant as she looks at the cabin.
I put my hand to my lower belly with concern. “You’re not using your witch powers on me, are you?”
She scowls at me. “I am not a witch! Neither are you. We’re blessed.”
“Blessed with magic,” I say.
“Ah!” She throws her hands up and heads toward the door. “You’re making me crazy.”
“That’s nothing new,” I say, following behind her.
She laughs. “That’s the truth.”
My phone rings and I scowl. Who would be calling me? Everyone is here…
“I’ll let you take that,” my mom says, blowing me a kiss before closing the front door.
I pull out my phone and my stomach does a quick clench.
Alexis.
I answer despite myself. “Yes?”
The line is quiet for a second. “Hey. I needed to tell you that I kicked Jason out. I was dumb. I don’t know…I don’t know who I was when I did that to you, but I don’t like that version of me.”
I swallow and let the last of my anger for her go. “So don’t be her.”
She sniffles and her voice breaks. “Yeah. Okay.”
“Do you need me to forgive you?”
“No, it’s not…I just…I don’t know what I need,” she sobs.
“Alexis.”
“Yeah?”
“I forgive you.”
She cries harder. “I don’t deserve it.”
“Well, I don’t care what you think you deserve. My forgiveness isn’t for you, either. It’s for me. I’m done carrying this with me.”
“What do I do now? How can I forgive myself?”
I take a deep breath. “Put yourself first for once.”
“I did that already, didn’t I? So selfish,” she says, her voice loaded with self-loathing.
“Did you?”
“What do you mean?”
