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28. Got Him In The End

"Are you ready to start stuffing your face all day?" Sage asked the next morning.

She was still beating herself up internally over the way she introduced Knox to Brit.

It was a bitch move on her part to let the mean girl in school know that not only did Knox turn out great but that Sage got him in the end.

It's not like Sage had to run home and work for her family's business. Yes, Sage did look up a few things on social media and saw that Brit had gotten divorced and come home.

They all had shitty things happen in their life that resulted in where they were today.

She'd be the first to say she knew what it felt like.

And though she didn't want to talk about it much, she felt she owed some explanations to Knox.

Talking about her job a little let him see how stressful her last employers were.

He'd even said it sounded so silly to him that a simple mistake could blow up that way when nothing ever came about it.

That had been her life daily at her job. Thanks to Henry ghosting out of her life, her "poor choices" as many had called them back then, couldn't be separated from her personal and work life.

She knew most of the pettiness came from someone else who thought they should have gotten her job. It was always that.

And when she left, that person was promoted. Good for them. She hoped Selena was getting shit on just as much as her.

She didn't know. She didn't look. She didn't ask. She had no contact with anyone from her previous job other than Kate. And Kate wouldn't talk about those things because, like her, Kate tried to stay out of it.

Not once that she was aware of, did Kate come to her defense at her last job and she wouldn't have wanted it. They worked in two completely different parts of the business and one had nothing to do with the other.

She wouldn't go to bat for Kate because she didn't know enough about Kate's job to do that.

Plus she didn't like having someone stick up for her and then have it add to the fact she only got where she was because of other people and now they needed to fight her battles.

At Blossoms, none of that mattered.

She learned that no one thought she got her job because of Violet. She was getting congratulations all the time on how well the Holly Bloom Foundation did this year because of her work and with any luck there would be some news coming on the one of a kind pieces that Poppy could make for Mateo.

"I can't wait," he said. "No one will be upset if I don't eat all seven fish dishes, right?"

"Nope," she said. "There are a few I don't eat. One is baccala. It's salted cod. I can't stand it. My father and Nonna are the only ones that eat it. Until Violet came and she ate a ton of it. I think that won Nonna over."

"Oh boy, guess I should eat it."

He was laughing and she bumped her shoulder into his. "You already won her over at Thanksgiving and you know it."

The minute the word soulmates came out of her nonna's mouth, she knew. Nonna hadn't met Henry. Looking back, maybe Sage knew deep down it wouldn't work.

There was part of her that knew Nonna would make comments on Henry being too slick and fancy for her from the comments her family made alone.

Just because she'd worked in the fashion industry, she wasn't this fancy flashy person deep down. Neither was Kate. Kate might look it on the outside, but on the inside, she was the girl from Staten Island who was best friends with her brother and could swear like a drunken sailor when she had too much wine.

"That's a good thing," he said. "I didn't eat a lot of breakfast because you said there are snacks out all day."

"There are. She'll have so much out and then by dinner no one is even hungry, but you can't help yourself. We've convinced her to have some of the fish spread out now. So I think shrimp cocktail will be a snack and a crab dip. Lunch could be linguine with clam sauce. Nonna does a spicy red sauce."

"That sounds awesome."

"Good," she said. "There will be other things too if you don't like that. Dinner should be the baccala, baked salmon, scallops and then one more. I lose track."

"That is more than enough."

"Lobster," she said. "That's the other one. Lobster tails. Lots of pasta too and sauce and people can eat what they want."

"I might want to move in with your grandmother after this."

She started to laugh and they drove to her grandmother's house.

There was part of her that wanted her family to accept Knox and she decided to put him on the spot. She did it last night by mistake, but this was planned.

Her grandmother might appreciate it too.

"Nonna," she said, kissing her grandmother's cheek when she walked in. "I gave Knox what I think the menu will be and he said he might have to move in with you."

Knox's face flushed adorably and Nonna said, "I could use a big strapping man to do some things around the house and would be happy to feed him, but instead maybe I can teach you how to cook so you can keep him around."

"Ha," her mother said. "Nonna got you. Get your butt in the kitchen this year and learn."

"I guess that backfired on me," she said, shrugging.

"You don't know how to cook like your grandmother?" Knox asked. His face resembled a puppy getting a toy taken away.

"Sage never wanted to learn," Nonna said.

"That's not true," she argued. "When I was younger you kicked me out of the kitchen."

"Because you were too busy wanting to eat rather than cook. Now you've got a reason to learn."

Trace and Violet opened the door. They were staying in a hotel too, but not the same one as her and Knox.

"Are you going to teach Sage to cook?" Trace asked. "Do it, Sage. Violet won me over in the kitchen."

"Thatis what won you over?" Violet asked, nudging her husband.

"You know it. I even said some of your dishes are better than my mother's."

"I heard that," her mother said. "But I'll let it pass because you need to keep your wife happy."

"That's right," her father said. "Happy wife, happy life."

Sage turned and looked at Knox. He had no reaction to that. She didn't want him to have any bad thoughts about his parents' failed marriage.

"How about happy husband?" she asked. "Shouldn't it go both ways? I'd like to think everyone was equally as happy."

"Now you're finally getting it," Nonna said. "It's finding that person that makes you want to think that way."

"Yes," she said. "It is. It's about damn time I found him too."

Knox smiled at her. "I'd like to think I'm the one that found Sage."

"You found each other," Trace said. "Blah, blah, blah. I'm hungry. Nonna, you need to feed my wife and baby. Let me help you bring the food out."

Everyone laughed. "When is Kate coming?" Sage asked. "She's back, right?"

"She'll be here soon," Trace said. "She had some last minute things to pick up, she said. I didn't ask. I never do with her."

"Kate likes to keep everyone on their toes," she said to Knox. "She's probably going to come in with a case of wine."

"Kate loves her wine," Nonna said.

"You drink it with her," she argued. "All the time."

"Can't let her drink alone. Violet isn't going to be much help this year and you're not going to get tipsy and worry you'll say something you shouldn't."

Her shoulders dropped. There went Nonna again.

"Nothing to worry about saying," she said. "But I'd rather not embarrass myself in front of my boyfriend."

Nonna squinted. "Embarrassing yourself in front of each other is all part of the process, Sage."

Her grandmother walked back into the kitchen after that.

She turned to Knox and saw him shrug. "I'd say we've both done enough of that in the past and present."

"I hope so," she said.

He leaned down and kissed her. "I thought I'd be nervous, but for some reason it feels as if you are. Just relax. Enjoy yourself. This is a new experience for me and I'm going to let it fall where it will."

Another lesson she needed to learn.

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