Cheating Lessons: A Novel by Nan Willard Cappo

Author:Nan Willard Cappo [Cappo, Nan Willard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01DSL1GOG
Publisher: Tadmar Press
Published: 2016-04-25T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Friendship is constant in all other things

Save in the office and affairs of love . . .

—Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Her father loved the bread book. Bernadette phoned Nadine after church on Sunday while munching a piece of warm Jalapeño Corn Loaf.

Nadine was out.

Bernadette scowled at the wall. Nadine was out a lot these days.

She should be back by dinner at the latest, Nadine’s mother told Bernadette, as Vince had to work the evening shift. “Which is a good thing if you ask me.”

“What is, Mrs. Walczak?”

“That he has to work sometime. I don’t trust this big rush—dinners out on school nights, sending her roses, the whole bit. He reminds me of a Robert DeNiro movie.”

“Taxi Driver?”

“No, I don’t think he’s insane.” But she sounded doubtful, as though Bernadette had suggested a new and plausible theory. “The ones where he plays those Mafia types.”

Bernadette considered this. On first impression, Vince did have a kind of underworld savvy, but thinking he might be a hood was like thinking Nadine should know how to plant rice. “You really think the mob runs McDonald’s, Mrs. Walczak? That would be some cover.”

“That’s what my husband says.” Nadine’s mother sighed. “Don’t have daughters, Bernadette. Have sons. They can’t get pregnant.”

Bernadette did not point out some of the things they could do. After she hung up she wondered what it was with mothers. All they thought about was sex. Nadine had known Vince for only two and a half weeks.

Parents watched too much TV.

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