Gimme Some Sugar by Molly Harper

Author:Molly Harper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books

LUCY TRIED NOT to road rage, given her family’s recent vehicular luck. And she tried not to have an angry expression on her face when she picked Sam up from preschool. And she tried not to be angry when Sam was telling her a very complicated story about his day involving finger paints, the teacher’s bathroom break, and impromptu wall murals that were very funny but in no way his fault.

“Are you okay, Mama?” Sam asked from the backseat as she turned onto their road.

“Sure, baby, why do you ask?”

“Well, you’ve just been saying, ‘Mm-hmm,’ instead of asking me a bunch of questions to make sure I didn’t have anything to do with Kayla and Denver painting on the walls. Most of the time, you would be asking me a lot more questions.”

Lucy groaned. The whole point of her trying to make this life in Lake Sackett was so she could be a good mother to her son, and here she was half-assing her way through a conversation with him. She was spreading her focus too thin, which meant nothing was getting her full attention. And Sammy deserved as much of that attention as she could give him while safely operating a motor vehicle.

“I’m sorry, honey. I’m just a little distracted because I had a long day. But I’m glad you didn’t paint on the walls, or try to tell anybody else to paint on the walls, because that’s not very nice. And it probably made a lot of work for poor Miss Lilah.”

“Yeah, that’s what Miss Lilah said. She did not laugh.”

“I’ll bet.”

“Why was your day so long?”

“Oh, Mama just had an unpleasant conversation at the grocery with somebody who seems to think she knows everything and should tell everybody what to do.”

“Like June?” Sam sighed dramatically, rolling his head back against the car seat. “I like Hazel but June is so bossy when I go to play with them and Aiden and Nate.”

“Well, I think June is just glad that someone younger than her came along so she can feel like the bigger kid. She’ll probably stop bossing you around as soon as her little brother or sister gets here.”

“Yeah, she talked a lot about that. She wants a brother real bad, because she already has a sister and she says one is enough,” Sam said, his eyes growing wide for emphasis.

“I’ll bet.” Lucy snorted, remembering to file that away to tell Margot.

“So someone was mean to you at the grocery store?” Sam asked. “Were you mean back?”

“Maybe a little, but nothing Grandma Gale would have washed my mouth out with soap over,” she said.

“That’s so gross,” Sam exclaimed with glee. He loved hearing about his grandparents’ “prehistoric” punishments like soap in the mouth or copying definitions out of the dictionary. By comparison, time-outs seemed downright reasonable.

“So was she mean to you because she was mad about you dancing with Mr. Duffy?”

Lucy nearly skidded to a stop in the middle of the road. “What?”

“Mama, you said I’m supposed to ask, ‘Beg pardon?’ instead of shout, ‘WHAT?’ ” Sam laughed.

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