Cat Breaking Free by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Author:Shirley Rousseau Murphy [Shirley Rousseau Murphy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780061740114
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2007-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

20

Picking up the two girls again the next morning, Ryan headed straight for the ranch, no stopping this morning for breakfast; she and Rock had shared a bowl of cereal; though he’d had his dog food to himself. She wanted to get the upstairs dried in before any chance of rain. Early spring on the central coast could be temperamental, California wasn’t all sunshine and warm beaches. The roughing in was finished, the roof raised and the new studs in place. Today they would get the exterior sheeting and roof sheeting on. The flooring was being delivered this morning, too, and the drywall, all of which needed to be stacked under cover before bad weather hit. When she stopped for the girls, they climbed in the back seat sleepy and quiet; they were silent until, in the center of the village, Dillon came alert, suddenly glued to the window.

“There she is again!” They were passing a small café patio that was half filled with early breakfast customers. “What does she do, at the crack of dawn? For hours, like that? Looking up and down the street and writing things down. She’s spying on someone. How long’s she been sitting there?”

Ryan glanced in her rearview mirror. “What?’

“That same blonde,” Dillon said, “that lives next door to Clyde, that bimbo who was all over him yesterday when we pulled up at his house. Who is she?”

“That cheap blonde with the tight sweaters and big boobs,” Lori specified.

Ryan glanced at Lori, amused, and turned off Ocean up the highway, heading for the Harper place.

“We’ve seen her four times,” Lori said, “sitting in different restaurants early in the morning. For hours, alone, watching the street. Writing something in a notebook. She’s never eating, just coffee. How much coffee can a person drink?”

“Hours, Lori? How would you know that?’

“We’ve been taking the dogs to the beach,” Lori said. “Susan Brittain’s dogs.” Susan was one of the four senior ladies Lori had lived with since her father went to prison. Lori loved the standard poodle and the Dalmatian, and got along well with them. “I don’t like that woman, she’s a tramp.”

Ryan gave her a stern look in the mirror, trying not to laugh.

“Well, she is. She’s there when we go down, real early before school, and she’s there when we come back. Once was later, Saturday. We were in the library.” She glanced at Dillon, who grinned sheepishly.

Dillon’s current English teacher was assigning long, detailed papers, and would not let the kids go online to do their research. It had to be from books, with the sources properly noted, all footnotes in correct form—and no adult help.

Dillon had never worked this way, she said all the kids complained. Two dozen parents were so angry they were trying to get the teacher fired. But a dozen more applauded her. Dillon found the new method very hard and demanding. She didn’t care, at the moment, that the training would put her in the top ranks when applying for college.

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