About That Man by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods [Woods, Sherryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Man-Woman Relationships, Love Stories, Orphans, Uncles, Virginia, City and Town Life, Women Teachers
ISBN: 9780778327301
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2000-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

“Daddy’s doing what?” Daisy asked, staring at Anna-Louise in shock when they met for pizza on Monday night.“You heard me,” the pastor said. “He’s taking Frances to play bingo in Colonial Beach tomorrow night.”

Since Anna-Louise was hardly likely to lie about something as mind-boggling as that—or about anything else, for that matter—Daisy supposed she had no choice but to believe her.

“Where did you hear that?”

“From Frances herself. I think she’s in shock.”

“She must be, if she said yes. I thought those two hated each other.”

Anna-Louise grinned. “Hate is often just the flip side of love. All that passion roiling around inside.”

Daisy frowned at her. “Should you be talking about passion?”

“Absolutely,” Richard said, slipping into the booth beside his wife and giving her a very thorough kiss. “She’s a minister, not a saint. More importantly, she is my incredibly sexy wife.”

“I don’t want to know this,” Daisy said. “I never once even thought about what sort of love life Pastor Duncan had.”

“He was seventy-five when he retired and looked like a cherub,” Richard pointed out.

Daisy nodded. “Exactly. Can we please change the subject? Maybe talk about walking the straight and narrow?”

Richard regarded her with evident fascination. “Why? Are you thinking of venturing off that path? With Walker, perhaps?”

Anna-Louise poked her elbow sharply into his ribs.

“Hey,” he protested. “I like the guy, even if he did run off with my wife the first time we met.”

“Did we come here for pizza or did we come here to gossip?” Anna-Louise asked, frowning at her husband.

“I don’t gossip,” Richard said, clearly offended. “I report facts.”

“Well, none of this is suitable for next week’s edition,” Daisy said, looking across the Italian restaurant to see what Tommy was up to. He’d joined friends at the video machines the minute they’d arrived. As near as she could tell, they were all around his age, so there was little likelihood that these were the culprits involved in the discussion of drugs.

“How are things going with Tommy?” Anna-Louise asked, her gaze following Daisy’s.

“Well enough. He’s got a real case of hero worship on Walker.”

“And how is his uncle taking that?” Anna-Louise asked.

“I’m not sure he’s even aware of it. Sometimes I catch him looking at Tommy as if he can’t quite believe that he’s his nephew. They’ll be doing really well together, and then it’s like this wall goes up between them.”

“Walker’s doing?” Anna-Louise guessed.

Daisy nodded. “I think he’s afraid to get close. I get the feeling he was never all that close to his parents. He cared about Beth, but he couldn’t stop her from running off with Tommy’s father. His wife left him and took his kids. I think he feels himself starting to care about Tommy, and then he shuts down because nobody in his life’s had much staying power. Of course, he blames himself for that.”

“Typical,” Anna-Louise said. “If he’s lost a lot of people he cared about, he’s not going to risk himself by getting close to Tommy.” She looked pointedly at Daisy. “Or anyone else.

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