Adjournment (The Fate Series) by Emersyn Vallis

Author:Emersyn Vallis [Vallis, Emersyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

We spend the rest of the day out by the pool with gossip magazines and drinks. As a just in case, we hung a “No Boys Allowed” sign on the front door and gates. I didn’t really think the signs would work but they are doing a fantastic job so far.

“Girls, did you see that hot piece of man they recast to as a co-star in the film you are working on!” Grams hints, from behind her magazine.

She’s reading through an old interview from his last movie about why he can’t treat women with respect.

I’m paraphrasing of course.

“Yes, we have!” Lexi scoffs. “He is a pig, Grams. He isn’t allowed to even work with women because he’s a pig and a womanizer… Did I mention he’s a pig?” she says full of passion.

She just called her Grams! She used to call her Mrs. Moore.

She must be getting comfortable… or drunk.

We exchange a look that says let the fact that he has a restraining order against my sisters go for now. There’s no reason to remind them.

“Well, I’m just saying that he could womanize me anytime.” Grams giggles.

We all lower our magazines to look at her.

“What?” she asks without looking up at us.

“Mother, please, neither the kids nor I want to hear about you being womanized.” Our mother straightens out her magazine.

“Oh, but it’s okay for you to talk about it,” Grams huffs.

We don’t.

“Who was talking about it?” Morgan laughs looking around.

“All of you, a bunch of sex fiends I’ve raised… Molly…” Grams points to her but Molly interrupts before she can go off on a drunken rant about Molly and Dean’s sex life.

“Grams, can you toss us a beer,” Molly shouts, from the large round six person raft we are all sitting on, trying to change the subject.

Grams takes the bait and digs into the cooler to her side. Taking out one for each of us, she makes sure to put one in her cup holder first. She tosses one to Molly, who of course misses, and it ends up in the water floating away.

“Molly, you’re going to be fishing that out of the pool later,” our mother says, glaring over her sunglasses at her.

Grams gets ready with another, this time sending it to me followed by the next three. Mom has some kind of drink in her lidded tumbler and since none of us feel like getting wet right now the beer will float around the pool basking in the sun as well. The sound of someone’s phone begins to fill the air from where we left them next to Grams.

“Whose phone is that?” Molly yells over to Grams.

“How would I know? They are all the same?” she answers the ringing phone and begins to speak. After agreeing about ten times she ends the conversation with an, “Okay, see you soon.”

“Well?” Molly asks her.

“Well, what?” Grams says.

“Who was that on the phone?” Molly stares at her.

“None of your business, dear, it was for Sidney.” She looks back to her article.

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