Bentleys Buy a Buick (That Business Between Us Book 5) by Morsi Pamela

Author:Morsi, Pamela [Morsi, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Gnarly Wool Publishing
Published: 2019-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

SOMEHOW, BETWEEN THE two of them, they forgot to set the alarm. The first hint of morning came as Quint padded into the bedroom.

“Mom, I’m going to be late for school.”

Tom and Erica sat up in bed simultaneously.

“Oh, crap!” he heard his wife say.

A stronger word came to Tom’s lips, but with Quint standing in the doorway, he managed not to say it.

“Go ahead. You can have the shower,” he told his wife. “And don’t worry about getting Quint to school. I’ll take him.”

As Erica rushed to the bathroom, Tom went to the kitchen and fixed Quint a hurry-up breakfast of cereal and milk. Once his son was dutifully eating, Tom went back to the bedroom and pulled on the clothes he’d taken off last night. He rubbed his chin, thinking of going without a shave, but the rough beard, along with the misshapen nose and the scar on his face, might be more than a new customer could get past. He traversed the steamy jungle of the bathroom, listening to his wife sloshing herself clean in the water as he scraped off the worst of his whiskers in a foggy mirror.

Quint was putting his bowl in the sink by the time Tom got back.

“I need to have a lunch,” he told his father. With a sigh he added, “When we’re late I always have to take peanut butter.”

Tom nodded and opened the refrigerator. His own lunch from yesterday was sitting on the shelf.

“Why don’t you take my leftovers from yesterday?” he suggested.

Quint looked skeptical.

“Why didn’t you eat it?”

“Because a nice old woman fixed me dinner,” he said. “Mom fixed this, so you know it’s great. Roast beef, yum.”

“Okay,” Quint agreed.

Tom transferred the contents of his insulated carrier into Quint’s lunchbox with the big yellow SpongeBob on the front. He added in a juice box and declared it complete.

“Go give your mom a kiss and let’s get going,” he said.

Erica was just coming out of the bedroom. She was dressed with her makeup done, but her hair was pulled up in a big clip on top of her head.

“Bye, Mom,” Quint said, running toward her for a quick smooch.

“You need your lunch?”

“It’s in my backpack,” he told her. “Dad gave me his leftovers from yesterday.”

“I’ll catch lunch out somewhere,” he told her. “And I’ve got my fingers crossed about making it home for dinner.”

“Okay.”

Tom stepped forward to say his goodbye as well. “Don’t panic too much about getting there on time,” he warned her. “I know you don’t like being late, but better late than smashed up on the road.”

“I’ll be careful,” she assured him.

Tom leaned down to place his lips on her own, but at the last minute she moved slightly and his little peck ended up on her cheek. It was unsatisfactory, but he thought they could make it up later when they had more time.

The drop-off line at the school in the mornings went far faster than the one in the afternoon, and Tom arrived at his shop with time to spare.

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