Captive Hearts
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“Hello,” I say with a trembling voice.
“Alice,” Miranda’s voice is as high-pitched as I’ve ever heard. “Oh, Alice,” she says, almost gasping, “it’s not cancer. It’s a fibroadenoma and it’s benign.”
“Oh, thank Christ,” I whisper into the phone. “I’m so happy for you, Miranda.”
“We’re going out to celebrate. You don’t have meetings this afternoon, do you? Come and join us, please. Jeff is coming as well.”
“It will be my utmost pleasure.” A tension that’s been building in my muscles for days finally releases, and, again totally against my character, I feel tears well up.
Miranda tells me where to meet them, after which I quickly hang up and head to the ladies’ room.
I dab my tears away and hope no one will come in, while I stare at myself in the mirror. “This is your time,” I tell my reflection. “Don’t waste your life on things that don’t matter any longer.” I nod at myself—agreeing with myself—straighten my spine, and walk out.
* * *
When I find Joy and Miranda—Jeff hasn’t arrived yet—at the Oxo Tower bar sipping champagne, I kiss Joy fully on the lips in front of her mother, and I know that I no longer have to care about what Miranda might think.
I hug Miranda for a long time, sit down, sip from the glass she’s poured me and look at the pair of them. My best friend and my partner. The two people I love most in the world. And I can’t think of a place I’d rather be right now than here.
“I love you both,” I say, and raise my glass. “And, Miranda, I hope you remember that promise you made last week.”
Miranda looks at me over the rim of her glass. “That you get to call me mother-in-law?” she asks. “Over my dead body, Alice. And I plan to live for a very long time.”
I find Joy’s gaze and the look she gives me warms me to the core.
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