Everyone looked at Lola in confusion. She’s obviously excited to know that her mother is awake. Why does she not want to see her?
Lola explained in a low voice, “My mother had a brain hemorrhage from mental stimulation and she just woke up from surgery. I can’t give her any more emotional swings.” With that, she turned to Blake and asked, “Mr. Harvey, I can’t take care of my mother. Can you find her a care worker? I’ll pay you back.”
Blake knew that Judy had an intermittent explosive disorder, but when he heard Lola call him Mr. Harvey and try to distance herself from him, he felt a suffocating pain in the chest.
He opened his mouth but didn’t utter a word as if his throat was filled with lead. After quite a while, he said in a hoarse voice, “Okay.”
Lola heaved a sigh of relief because
