Home Song by Thomas Kinkade

Author:Thomas Kinkade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

CHAPTER ELEVEN

SARA WATCHED THE DOOR AT THE CLAM BOX THE next morning, knowing Emily would not stop in. But still, she watched for her.

I was hard on her, Sara thought. The meeting was her idea. She was trying, at least. But then she sat up there all night, like a stone lion, and didn’t say a word in Luke’s favor. Still afraid to stick her neck out. Meanwhile, Charlie turned it into a pep rally.

“Order up!” Charlie slapped the bell near the service counter. “Sara, come and get your order,” he called.

“I hear you—” she called back, half-ignoring him.

A customer was telling her what he wanted for breakfast, and Sara suddenly realized she hadn’t been listening.

“Sorry, how do you want the eggs?”

“I didn’t ask for eggs. I want hotcakes, bacon on the side,” he said, sounding annoyed.

“I got it.” Sara whisked away his menu. “Be right back with your coffee,” she promised.

She went to the counter to pick up her order and found Charlie arguing with Lucy. “It’s not what a man expects from his wife, Lucy. You embarrassed me in public while I’m in the middle of this election. How could you go against me like that?”

“I didn’t go against you. How many times do I have to say it? I was just asking a question.”

Sara was about to escape with her order when she noticed it was missing a side of hash browns. She didn’t need another annoyed customer this morning. The tips were bad enough around here. She felt self-conscious listening to Charlie and Lucy argue, but she needed her hash browns and didn’t quite dare to interrupt.

“Your innocent question made me look like a fool,” he went on.

As if he needed any help doing that, Sara thought.

“I don’t know what’s gotten into you lately, but it’s got to stop,” he warned Lucy. “Do you hear me?”

Sara thought Lucy was going to burst into tears for a moment. Then her face got a tight, determined look.

“I can get up and speak in a meeting if I want to. The world doesn’t revolve around you—”

“You’re wrong and you know it. You just won’t admit it, as usual,” he grumbled. “Here’s your order,” he said, grudgingly setting a plate of pancakes on the order bar. He suddenly caught sight of Sara. “What do you want?”

“I need some potatoes on this,” she said, shoving the plate toward him. He scowled and dumped a scoop on the dish.

She pulled the plate back. “She has a right to ask a question, Charlie,” she said impulsively. From the corner of her eye, she caught sight of Lucy, who hadn’t walked away yet with the pancakes. Lucy slowly turned, watching Sara and Charlie.

Charlie stood with his hands on his hips. “Who asked you? As a matter of fact, I think you’re the one who’s been filling my wife’s head with all these wild ideas. All this lunacy started when you came to work here.”

“That’s ridiculous. Lucy wanted to go back to finish school for a long time.

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