Garters and Gargoyles by Nancy Warren

Author:Nancy Warren [Warren, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781928145752
Publisher: Ambleside Publishing
Published: 2020-06-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

He might have been looking at Sylvia, but I suspected his words were intended for me.

I was half tempted to take offense at his controlling manner, except that I knew how much Rafe cared for me. Besides, I wasn’t interested in Vikram. But a girl could look, couldn’t she?

There were a couple of people I knew who might have stayed in touch with Pamela. I chose to start with Sarah Levinson, as she had been one of the key organizers of our tenth anniversary high school reunion. I hadn’t been able to attend, obviously, since I was living in England, but I was pretty sure that Sarah kept up with everybody. I sent her a quick email, and she got back to me flatteringly quickly. I said it had been such a long time since I had caught up with anybody from back home that I wondered if she had some time to Skype. She sounded delighted to hear from me, and we set a time the following day for my evening and her afternoon.

If anyone would know what Pamela had been up to in the ten years since we had left school, Sarah would. Or if not knowing herself, she’d know someone who did.

Of course, since I hadn’t attended my tenth year high school reunion, and I knew what a gossip Sarah was, I dressed myself and did my makeup and hair for my Skype catchup chat, putting almost as much effort as I would have had I actually gone to the ten-year reunion. No doubt she’d be telling everyone we knew that she’d caught up with me, and I didn’t want her telling them how badly I’d aged.

When we connected, I felt suddenly transported back to high school, to metal lockers that banged and gossiping in the girls’ bathroom. Sarah looked genuinely thrilled to see my face. Like me, she’d gone to a lot of trouble with her appearance. At the same time, we said, “You look great!”

She was a little rounder in the face, and her hair was a more stylish version of the long, straight curtain she’d worn a decade earlier, but she was otherwise the same. It was like falling back in time. “Lucy. It’s been so long. Where have you been? What are you up to? Tell me everything. How are you? I heard you had a kind of breakdown after Todd. You went all the way to England!”

Seriously? That was the word? Oh, I was glad I was talking to the biggest gossip my high school had ever seen. I straightened her right out. “Todd was an ass, and I am so much better off without him.” All true.

I told her I loved my life in Oxford. Also true.

“And are you seeing anyone?” she asked in that soft, pitying tone people use when they suspect you’ll die alone surrounded by a couple of dozen cats.

I could tell her I was being wooed by the most incredible man, perfect in every way but one.

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