Her Last Wish

Her Last Wish - Chapter Twenty Six

Her Last Wish
Chapter Twenty Six
Kota
(Saturday)

"Come on, Kota, we've done this hundreds of times before. Where is your head at?" Nathan scolds, his body poised and ready for his next move.

Saturday morning workouts; it's a tradition I started when we first started at The Academy. Now I wish to sleep in or spend my morning doing something other than martial arts training with my brute of a best friend. The thing is, when you train with one person on a regular basis, you learn all their tells and eventually, it doesn't seem as rewarding as it once was. After we graduated The Academy, Nathan and I kept up these workouts unless we were preoccupied with other things. Normally, I would be happy to put his back down onto the mat, but today, I'm distracted.

I groan and jump up to my feet. "I'm done," I tell him, grabbing a towel to wipe the sweat from my forehead before scooping up my water bottle.

"What?" Nathan frowns with confusion. "We've barely been at it for an hour."

"I know, Nate. I'm sorry." I drink the water from my bottle before chucking it to the side.

He relaxes his stance, serious blue eyes observing me. "What's wrong?"

I sigh, releasing the straps around my hands. "Mom called yesterday."

"Right. And? Is she okay?"

"Yeah, if you call quitting your job and putting the house up for sale 'okay', then she's fine."

His eyes widened. "Shit. Why?"

I shrug my shoulders. "She said that now I've moved out, and Jess is in London, she doesn't see the point in having that house any longer. She also said that the only reason she kept working in the first place was so she could continue to provide for Jess and me without going into her savings." Placing my hands on my hips, I shake my head. "I don't blame her, Nate. It just took me by surprise."

"So what's she going to do? Has she got enough savings for her to stop working?"

"She's found an apartment or something on the other side of town, and yeah, she has enough savings from the Divorce to live comfortably for the rest of her life. With the house sale too, she'll be set."

I sit down on the floor and fall onto my back, staring up at the ceiling of our basement gym. I can't wait to move into our new house. The gym there will be much bigger than this one. The whole house will be much bigger than this one actually, but I'm definitely looking forward to having a bigger gym, not as much as Nate though. Between this house and the house North lives in, this is the only one with a home gym set up so everyone comes here to workout. There's never enough space for us all to work out together so we had to make a schedule.

Nathan falls down onto the floor beside me. "Fuck."

"I don't care what she does, Nate. I just want my Mom to be happy. It was just...so unexpected."

"You've floored me, so I can't imagine how you felt when she told you." I feel his eyes on me but don't turn to look at him. "What did Jessica?"

The reminder brings a smile to my face. "She doesn't want Mom to sell the house."

"Why?"

"Because she wants it herself," I tell him. "Jess loves that house, always has done. She's always said she would love to raise her own family there."

"We could buy it," a new voice says and I turn my head towards the door, finding Victor leaning against the frame in black sweat pants and a casual white t-shirt. His feet are bare, hair tucked behind his ears, iPad in hand. "We have enough money to do so."