Linda Warren - Texas Rebels - Jude

Luke met him and they shook hands. Paige couldn’t hear what they were saying, but soon Jude walked toward her.

She said the first thing that came into her head. “Hey, Jude.” It was the title of an old Beatles song that had been their favorite back then. They’d played it over and over just to sing “Hey, Jude.”

He didn’t smile, and a foreboding feeling came over her. “I’m sorry about your mom.”

“Th-thank y-you.” She stumbled over the words like a teenager. “I was going to call before I left town.”

“Could we go somewhere and talk?” He looked around at the tombstones and graves nestled among stately cedars. “Someplace besides here?”

“Sure. I can use Staci’s car. Where would you like to meet?”

“They redid the park that’s two blocks from your old house. It’s nice and we could meet there.”

“Okay. I’ll see you in about thirty minutes.”

He nodded and strolled back toward his truck.

They were cordial and polite like strangers, but they had been so much more.

“What did he want?” Staci asked.

“Just to talk.”

“You don’t have to do that if you don’t want to,” Luke told her. “It might be best to let it go.”

“I can’t. I have to know if he thinks about our child all the time...like...I do.”

“Oh, Paige.” She didn’t even know she was shaking until Staci put her arms around her.

“I didn’t think it would be this hard to see him.” She brushed away an errant tear. “He didn’t even smile when I said, ‘Hey, Jude.’ It was our favorite song.”

“Do you still love him?”

She didn’t know, but she knew what the nausea was about. Jude. Seeing him again. And having to talk about that time and what they’d done. They had to drag out all the dirty laundry to see if it could be cleansed or if the stains of life’s mistakes would haunt her forever.

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