Best Friends in the Show Me State by Jessie Gussman

Author:Jessie Gussman
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Jessie Gussman
Published: 2020-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Thankfully, Dana left Monday morning.

Unfortunately, she wanted to come back the next weekend. When Clark explained to her that Jill was taking Huck for that weekend, she threw a bit of a fit.

“I think you set that up just so that I wouldn’t get to see him next weekend.” Her eyes were narrowed, and she glared at him across the counter.

He hated always feeling like he was on the defensive, and for goodness’ sake, it was her mother. Dana didn’t get along with Jill, though. “How was I supposed to know that you were thinking about coming back next weekend to see him?” He gritted his jaw and tried to pull a deep breath in and blow it out before he said any more. “You haven’t seen him in over a year. And now all of a sudden, I was somehow supposed to know you want to come and visit two weekends in a row? If you would tell me, I would make sure that he was here. But Jill had already set up to have them.”

“You’re so unreasonable. It is impossible to talk to you. The fact of the matter is I am his mother, and I should take precedence over anyone else. Cancel my mother’s plans, and have him here next weekend.”

“It’s your mother. Go to her house and see him.” Clark didn’t really want to suggest that. He wasn’t completely comfortable with the thought of Dana seeing them at Jill’s house. Dana was just the kind of person who would put Huck in the car and disappear with him.

Eventually the law would come after her and find her, but Clark didn’t want to put Huck through that. Man, he wished he hadn’t screwed up so bad for his son. Why hadn’t he been smarter when he’d been thinking about marriage?

“Well, I just might do that.”

Clark turned to the refrigerator and opened the door, not even remembering what he wanted to begin with. Just frustrated. He didn’t really think Dana would go. The two of them didn’t get along very well. What a mess.

It wasn’t long after that Dana drove away, giving up on getting Huck, and leaving Clark with a profound sense of relief.

The rest of the week went well for him. They were ahead on the corn planting by Friday, and he and Marlowe had settled into a routine. The only hiccup being Tuesday evening when Marlowe went to use the washing machine and had to move his clothes from the washer to the dryer.

“You put your socks and your jeans in the same load of clothes, along with Huck’s white T-shirt and his red sweatshirt. Who does that?”

She’d waited to say anything until after they put the kids in bed at least. Neither one of them had mentioned the idea of them getting married. He hadn’t allowed his brain to go there, and he assumed she hadn’t either. Although he was completely certain that if it were something that was necessary for him to do to keep custody of Huck, Marlowe would do it in a heartbeat.

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