Page 36 of SEAL Mates

I was feeling guilty and I needed her to say something to take the guilt away. I hated the way I spoke to her earlier, it was wrong in so many ways. She was a good mom, that part was clear. I didn’t turn out perfect, but hey that was my own doing, not hers.

“You sound stressed, you get rest too. Sorry I didn’t even ask how it was all going.”

“Really well.”

I lied, thinking I didn’t need her to worry about me when she had enough on her plate.

I flopped back on to the bed, feeling helpless and useless.

“Love ya mom.”

“Love you too. Everything will work out, you’ll see.”

She knew I was lying even as I hung up the phone. I put the phone to the side of me thinking when the hell will this damn virus just disappear. I hated it, as much as I did being here and not telling her that maybe it had been a big mistake. Then again, the guys did ask me to move in with them, so it wasn’t all bad.

“Yes!” I blurted as I picked up the phone. I thought maybe mom was calling and going to interrogate me about what was happening here.

“That good, huh?” Greg said on the other side. I shot up, realizing that it wasn’t mom, but Greg.

“Sorry, I thought that it was mom calling again.”

“Oh.”

I sighed, “Yeah, they’ve all got COVID so she said that I shouldn’t go home.”

He started to laugh. “Your mom would never change. She called me earlier to ask how it was going and I said badly because a certain cop had scared everyone away and I have to go home. A little emergency, so I said that maybe you would want to come home with me. Seeing as nothing is going according to plan.”

I was confused, he was talking in riddles, but one thing was clear, my mom was as sneaky as ever.

“Seriously, she called you to find out how it was going and you told her the truth?”

He chuckled, “You wanted me to lie to your mother?”

No. But, that woman!

“OK. This makes sense. I asked to speak to the kids and she was like, oh they’re sleeping.”

Oh my Gosh, I’m so stupid. This was my mom I was talking about, the fact that she waited till today to call to tell me made no sense. Mom was a stress monger. A lot worse than me. She made me feel like the least stress free person in the world.

“I’m so stupid!”

Greg burst out in laughter and I was shaking my head, stripping the now damp towel off my body and getting ready to leave, but then I realized he’d said something about a cop.

“Did you say something about a cop?”

“Yeah, that, so Alec has been steering all potential SEALs who want to be interviewed staying away. He said he would give a ticket, so everyone’s like your his or some caveman shit like that. So, I thought maybe you should just go home and…”

“But, everyone’s got COVID in my house.”

“No, I just told you that your mom made it up.”

He did, but the idea of Alec going to so much trouble made me feel desired, I didn’t want to stay away if anything I wanted to get to know him better.

“And Alec wants me for himself.”

“Uh-huh, so you’re not coming with me?”

“No Greg, I’m going to move in with him. He asked me this morning.”

There was a pause as if he was trying to digest the information which I’d just told him. There was nothing more to say about the subject, but I had to get off the phone to double-check what Greg had told me and confirm it was right before moving in with Alec, Derek and Blake.

After telling and convincing Greg that it was all alright and I would be fine until he got back. I moved to the table, even though I was butt naked and checked online, something mom would never do in a million years, and sure enough both kids were in school yesterday and no doubt at the end of the day it would show today too.

Mom was the sneakiest person I knew, but then I had a dirty smile on my face realizing that she wasn’t the only one. Alec had gone to a lot of trouble to make sure I moved in, and I wasn’t about to let him down.

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