Famous (A Famous novel) by Jenny Holiday

Author:Jenny Holiday [Holiday, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780995092778
Publisher: Jenny Holiday
Published: 2017-07-10T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Things spiraled from there. Emmy, even though she was clearly trying to be useful and to stay out of his way, was invading his life. His very being.

Exhibit A was a week later, when Evan arrived home on Friday night to find the house empty.

It was an odd feeling, made more so by the fact that he only realized she wasn’t around after he had burst through the door calling “I’m home!”

What did he think? That they were Ozzie and Harriet and she’d be waiting for him, casserole freshly microwaved, excited to hear about his day? That because it was Friday, maybe they’d bike into town for a piece of pie at Wanda’s?

It was just that he’d gotten the programs back from the printer for the art show, and he wanted to show them to her. Despite the fact that he’d been thinking of the event as a monkey on his back, he was getting excited. It was her doing. After he’d agreed to let her help with the execution, she had thrown herself into planning. She’d made a map and had him mark where he wanted each piece to hang, and she was working with Jerry, the barn’s owner, to get the walls properly prepared. She’d even stood over Evan, cracking the whip while he made a poster design that she then reproduced and had the community center kids plaster all over town.

But, he reminded himself, Emmy wasn’t his wife. She wasn’t his assistant. She wasn’t his anything. And more to the point, he didn’t want her to be. She didn’t owe him an accounting if she’d chosen to go out. Or if she was working on her music upstairs in her room.

“Evan?” came a voice, wafting in from the backyard through the open kitchen windows, and damned if his heart didn’t do a little jig. “We’re out back.”

We.

And damned if that didn’t temper his excitement a little.

He didn’t want to share her with Mrs. Johansen.

Or… “Jace?” The screen door almost hit him in the ass as he stepped into the yard. The teenager and Mrs. Johansen were sitting at the old picnic table in the yard, eating potato chips.

And so was…SilverCEO?

“Burgers!” Emmy announced from her perch at the grill, snapping her tongs as if in victory. “I made burgers, and I didn’t carbonize them this time!” She was looking at him the way some of his kids did—both the college ones and the younger ones at the community center—when they craved positive reinforcement.

He was about to give it to her despite the fact that he personally didn’t think she needed to make burgers or buy shorts or learn to drive to be a “real girl,” but Mrs. Johansen interrupted, trilling, “Practicing for the big barbeque!”

Emmy shot Mrs. Johansen a quelling look, and Evan spoke the line that had basically been fed to him. “What big barbeque?”

Emmy ignored the question. “Evan, this is Mr. Widmer, Mrs. Johansen’s friend.” She angled her head so that only he could see

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