Tempting Eden
“During my decade of dating, I had never brought anyone home. Jack, of course, wasn’t just anyone, but I wasn’t ready for him to meet my mother. I didn’t think I’d ever be ready for anyone I cared about to meet my mother.Georgiana Rochester was an acquired taste. She was stiff and regimented, a member of the old guard through and through. She assiduously attended her philanthropy meetings, ran her home with an iron fist, and never broke from the ideals of being a genteel Southern belle. I’d rare...ly ever seen her without makeup, and only saw her cry once—at my father’s funeral.Though Georgiana had grown up during the time of hippies and acid trips, she acted like she was straight out of the antebellum South. She wasn’t without warmth toward me, but she doled out any affection in efficiently measured spoonfuls, careful lest she overdo it somehow. Our relationship fractured when she discovered my pregnancy, and almost shattered completely when I refused to name the father. The only thing that had broken our impasse was Adele’s arrival.MoreLess
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