Except When Crisis Prevents

Mercy Chapter 6

Previous Chapter: Strange Fit

<<So how did it go?>> Isla read the text from Kim while she had her feet up on the coffee table next to Mum that evening, watching Father Brown on TV.

<<Really good. I think we found him a place.>>

<<I’m glad. Dave’s a nice boy.>> Kim couldn’t resist a maternal tone.

<<Yeah, he seems all right.>>

<<I don’t know him that well yet, but he seems unattached.>>

<<Hey now. Watch it.>> Isla made a playfully irritated face at her phone.

<<I know, I know. But you’d like to find someone.>>

<<What makes you think so?>>

<<You’ve said so.>>

<<Oh yeah.>> Mum glanced over at Isla and Isla quickly laid the phone face down on her lap, then picked it up when she looked away. Silly. As if she were a fourteen-year-old making plans to sneak out. <<It’s strange, the strength of these animal instincts.>>

<<Good grief, Isla. You’re a true romantic.>>