Kyra Davis by Kyra Davis

Author:Kyra Davis [Davis, Kyra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-06T07:33:35+00:00

There were no messages on either one of our answering machines. While Anne Brooke worked in Livermore she lived in Lafayette, and Anatoly and I both agreed that in a suburban city known for its manicured lawns and safe family environment a Harley might be a little conspicuous, so he put in a call to Avis. I offered to lend him my car, but as he pointed out, the amount Melanie had paid him for this case was enough to cover the expense of renting a car, every day for a month, if necessary.

For once I didn’t ask to tag along. I felt the bizarre need to wait by the phone. The phone that didn’t ring. I tried to distract myself by calling Dena, but she was in the middle of an inventory, so I called Mary Ann at the dinner party. She told me that Fitzgerald and his wife were there and that Johnny felt awful about having to uninvite me. She swore up and down that she didn’t know why Fitzgerald had come to the Rotunda earlier that day, and I actually believed her, although I still felt she was holding something back. Eventually I let her off the phone and I brought my laptop into the living room, determined to lose myself in the creation of a new manuscript. But I couldn’t concentrate. At nine-thirty I called Leah on her cell. We hadn’t spoken since I stormed out of the restaurant in Pleasanton, but that was only because we had both been busy. Leah and I stormed out on each other all the time; we knew better than to take it seriously.

“Sophie, I just wrapped up that retirement dinner at the Marines’ Memorial,” she said triumphantly as soon as she picked up. “The whole event went off without a hitch!”

“Congratulations. Are you heading home now?”

“I was. I actually didn’t expect to be done this early so the babysitter won’t be expecting me for another hour. New babysitter,” she said, before I could ask, “not Liz-the-lap-dancer.”

When Leah had arrived to pick Jack up early after Eugene’s funeral she had found Liz sitting on Bruce’s lap listening to music. I’ll confess that I found this news a little shocking until Leah admitted that Liz hadn’t actually been sitting on Bruce so much as she had been sitting beside him with her calves resting on his lap and that Jack had been no more than ten feet away, trying to convince an incredulous puppy to attack a plastic squeaky hamburger. Oh, and the music that was playing was from The Little Mermaid sound-track. Nonetheless Leah had been horrified by the “vulgarity of it all.”

“Why don’t you stop by and tell me more about the party?” I asked.

“You want me to come over there and tell you about a dinner party I threw for a retiring CEO?” Leah asked slowly.

She knew as well as I did that under normal circumstances I’d rather get a root canal than listen to her drone on about something like that, but these weren’t normal circumstances.

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