Chapter 113

Celestine's POV

I'm helping my mother out in the kitchen as she makes dinner. I'm not really doing much, I'm just helping her chop the vegetables.

"Celestine."

I look up to find my mom staring at me with an emotion I can't quite pinpoint in her eyes.

I pause in my cutting of the carrot. "What is it?"

She leans on the counter beside me. "Is there something you want to tell me?"

My heart speeds up. Did Cade tell her about Lorenzo and me? "I don't understand. Something like what?"

"I don't know." She stands up and walks back to the pot on the stove. "Anything at all. It has been a while since we talked. I just want to know if there's anything I need to catch up on. Maybe a boy."

A boy? Did Cade tell her?

"There's nothing. The semester was boring as usual. Nothing eventful happened." Except that, I got on a plane and flew to another state to beg a guy to take me back. I'm not about to tell her that though.

"Really?" She looks at me over her shoulder then walks back to me, taking hold of