Happily Ever Madder : Misadventures of a Mad Fat Girl (9781101607107) by Mcafee Stephanie

Author:Mcafee, Stephanie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: 2012-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

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I call Jalena when I leave the gallery to see what she’s doing, and she says she was about to call to ask me the same thing. She mentions Credo’s, and as much as I’d love to meet her there and get as drunk as a barber’s pole, I know I have to pass. I don’t need to be anywhere Kevin Jacobs might even think about showing up, because I’m almost sure I’d do something stupid.

I invite her to my house and she offers to bring a pizza, and even though I’ve already had pizza two times today, I tell her to bring it on. Because today is a good day to eat pizza all day long. When she arrives thirty minutes later, Buster Loo falls head-over-heels in love as soon as she walks in the door, and even after the pizza boxes are long gone, he stays as close to her as he can possibly get.

I bring up Lenore Kennashaw and she acts like she doesn’t really want to talk about her, but when I tell her how she’s been terrorizing me for the past several weeks, she softens up a bit.

“That’s Olivia’s mother-in-law, and I think the world of Josh.” She looks at me. “Josh is Olivia’s husband, and he’s a great guy, so I try to keep my mouth shut because I don’t want to cause them any more problems than what they’ve already got being kin to her, you know?”

“So Josh is nice?” I ask, not even trying to hide my surprise.

“Josh is an amazing man,” Jalena says. “He is so good to Olivia and the kids, and he even remembers my birthday every year.”

“How did he turn out like that?” I ask. “Did he take after his father?”

“Oh no.” Jalena shakes her head. “Frank Kennashaw is just as bad as Lenore, if not worse, and Olivia says they embarrassed and humiliated Josh pretty much nonstop when he was growing up. Olivia and I figure he turned out so good because he must have a powerful desire not to be like his parents.”

“Why doesn’t he move away?” I ask.

“Well, he wanted to. After he went to college, he didn’t want to move home, but he was dating Olivia hot and heavy by the time he graduated, so he came back and he’s still here.” She looks at me. “That’s actually one of the few ways Olivia and I are alike. Neither one of us will ever leave Pelican Cove, because, you know, this is home.”

“So what does Josh do?” I ask, ignoring all the emotions stirred up by that last comment.

“He owns a big landscaping business and just tries to get along with his parents as best he can. They make it hard on him, but he sticks to his boundaries. For example, the Kennashaws like to have these big knock-down, drag-out brawls during the holidays and stuff, but Josh won’t have any part of it. And that works out great for Olivia, because they’re always at my parents’ house for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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