Beth Harbison

Author:Shoe Addicts Anonymous
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-08-11T17:13:35+00:00

Chapter

12

Fortunately, when Joss found the torn top of a condom wrapper on the floor, under the lip of the kitchen cabinetry, she was alone.

Now, what she was doing under there made sense—Deena Oliver had, as usual, left her dishes in the sink with detailed and painstaking instructions on how to wash each piece by hand so when she’d dropped a small sterling silver mustard spoon, she had to retrieve it—but what any kind of contraceptive evidence was there for, it was hard to imagine.

The idea that it had anything to do with the Merry Maids who came twice a week was absurd, so Joss dismissed that thought as soon as it occurred to her. And the boys had revealed that Kurt Oliver had had a vasectomy. Which left her with only one conclusion, since she knew it wasn’t herself: Deena Oliver was having an affair.

And when she’d gotten careless and left the evidence of it under her bed—or her safari vehicle, if the thong had been indicative of a theme—her first defense had been a pretty decent offense: blame the nanny. Right to her face.

Just in case push came to shove.

Heaven knew if Kurt Oliver had found them, but if he had, the elusive yet vaguely intimidating man of the house thought Joss was screwing around with some guy when the family wasn’t home.

He might have thought they were Joss’s, too.

The potential was humiliating.

But, like so many other humiliating aspects of this job, it didn’t allow for an easy way out of her contract. Getting fired would have getting sued tagged on, Deena had made that clear, so Joss could only guess that displeasing Deena by breaking the contract in any way would end in the same result.

She was stuck.

And everything Deena Oliver did made her even more aware of that uncomfortable fact.

“I don’t want you talking to my friends. It’s a bother for them to have to take the time to be polite and chat with the help,” she’d chastised one day after one of the mothers at Colin’s overly elaborate birthday party had asked Joss where the bathroom was.

“Would you go pick up Kurt’s dry cleaning? I can’t find the ticket, but don’t worry, they always know which stuff is his.” It had turned out they didn’t always know which stuff was his, or even who he was, so, after six calls back to Deena, they had finally found the brown Armani suit…only it wasn’t a brown Armani suit but a gray Prada jacket.

“Merry Maids had to cancel today because of the weather or some other nonsense. When you’re finished cooking dinner, would you please go clean the bathrooms? With this flu that’s been going around, they’re a mess.”

And then there was Joss’s most reviled interruption:

“Are you almost finished in there?” Deena had asked from outside the bathroom door one day when Joss was changing a tampon. “The boys are waiting for you.”

It was a living hell.

So Joss returned, over and over, to the quest to find Something

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