Breakup in a Small Town by Kristina Knight

Author:Kristina Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

JENNY HEAVED A deep sigh as she saw not one, but two, sets of parents slam their car doors on the street before her home.

Nancy, wearing cropped pants and a cardigan twinset, carried a plate of cookies in her hands. Owen had on a pair of cargo shorts and a T-shirt in deference to the still-warm October sun. Her parents, by comparison, looked like they might be headed to a formal garden party in Tulsa or Saint Louis, not a backyard barbecue with children. Her mother wore wedge-heeled, peep-toe slides and a sheath dress in royal blue, with a wrap of some sort that was bound to have grass stains on it by the end of the day. Her father wore the familiar wingtips, pressed pants in a dove gray and a pearl-buttoned oxford shirt.

“Sweet Lord, this might have been a disastrous idea,” she muttered before pasting a smile on her face as she opened the front door. Their parents had never been the best of friends, but her mother’s attitude had significantly cooled since Adam’s accident. “Moms, Dads,” she said, “come in. Everyone is in the backyard.”

Nancy pressed a quick kiss to her cheek. “I’ll just leave the cookies in the kitchen on my way through. Don’t you look lovely today?”

Jenny glanced at her outfit: denim capris with little birdhouses embroidered along the hem, and a striped T-shirt. Nothing to write home about, but then again, at least she wasn’t in danger of ruining a garden-party-fabulous dress like her mother.

Owen and Doug followed Nancy through the house, but Margery hung back. She shot a disgusted look over her shoulder toward the RV. “What is the world is that...that thing doing here?”

Jenny wasn’t about to tell her mother that Adam was living in the camper, at least for now. Margery might stage an actual offensive in the hopes this separation would become permanent. Jenny might not trust that they could save their relationship, but inviting her mother’s criticism would only make things worse.

“We’re thinking about taking the boys on a trip,” she said, deciding that if the lie was good enough for Adam’s parents, it was good enough for her own.

“In that?” Margery wrinkled her nose as if the RV might hold some awful disease.

Jenny had never been overly interested in camping—not even in an RV—but her mother’s instant dislike of the possibility rubbed her the wrong way. She knew it was childish, but going on a vacation in an RV wasn’t the end of the world. There were RVs worth millions of dollars that had better amenities than the best five-star hotel might have.

“Yes, in that. Probably to Branson.” Her mother’s least favorite place. That Jenny wasn’t overly fond of it herself was beside the point. This was her life, not her mother’s, and Jenny would live it the way she wanted to.

“God, dear, why would you want to go there?”

“The music? The food? The golf?”

Margery shook her head and continued through the house.

Adam had set up several small tables and chairs around the patio.

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