Emerald Fire (Christian Romance) (The Jewel Series) by Bridgeman Hallee

Author:Bridgeman, Hallee [Bridgeman, Hallee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Olivia Kimbrell Press
Published: 2012-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

AFTER waiting with nothing to do with her hands for nearly an hour, Maxine begged Derrick to run to her apartment and retrieve her boards and colored pencils. If the baby came between now and eight, she’d have to go to the meeting. If not, someone from her office would need to have them, anyway. She might as well get them ready.

Normally, she’d have everything scanned into the computer for an electronic presentation. Due to the rescheduling, there was no time for that, so they’d go the old fashioned route and present with just her boards. The hard part, getting her ideas down, had been accomplished. Coloring in was mindless, but it kept her hands busy and at least part of her mind occupied.

She sat with Barry and Derrick in the private waiting room connected to the room Robin occupied. Occasionally, Tony came in for a break, and twice Sarah stepped in to give them a brief update, only to go back into the room almost immediately.

Eventually, activity increased through that door, and every so often the sound of Robin’s voice reached them. Sometimes she cried. Sometimes she screamed. Maxine’s fingers gripped the pencil tighter and tighter as the hours passed.

She sat on the vinyl couch, supporting a large board on her thighs with her feet propped on the table in front of her. She glanced out of the corner of her eye as Derrick sat on the cushion next to her. “We never talked about it this weekend. How’s school going, Derrick?”

He ran a hand through his hair. “Half of it is a complete waste of time. The other half is only mostly a waste of time. I guess it was my mistake telling Tony I wanted to manage hotels. I should have picked something that didn’t require a degree.”

“Nah. He would have sent you anyway. Besides, college was fun.” She threw down the yellow pencil and selected the shade of red she wanted to use to color in the gingham cloth on the emerald green grass. Emerald green was her trademark color. All of her ads had it in there somewhere. “Sometimes, I wish I wasn’t in the nine-to-five world and I still had Art 101 at ten.”

“Hmm. Well, I happen to know that most of what they are teaching is obsolete and I already have practical experience with the few things they teach that are useful. Usually, I feel decades older than the other kids. And, there’s the fact that my idea of a good time isn’t going to O’Malley’s Pub and getting falling down drunk three nights a week. That’s a bit of a problem.”

She laughed. “Yeah? What is your idea of a good time, Derrick?”

He shrugged, a habit brought from his life on the streets that he never shed. “A quiet evening, an intelligent woman, good food, stringed instruments.”

“Well, there’s that fiddle some nights at O’Malley’s.”

His smile looked strained. “How can you sit there and color like that?”

With a smile, she colored in the blue eyes of the little girl happily munching on a chicken leg.

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