Memories by Laurie Loveman

Author:Laurie Loveman [Loveman, Laurie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby

Deerflies avoided the section of river trail where pine trees grew close to the bank. Laura guided Envy off the trail into the coolness of the pine grove and let him rest there for a few minutes. It was close to five in the afternoon, she noticed, checking her watch as she brushed sweat-dampened hair off her forehead.

We’ve been out for almost four hours, she thought dispiritedly, patting Envy’s neck as a means of apology for making him walk on the trails for so long in the heat. Have I done the right thing? Yes, I’ve made the right decision, in fact, the only logical decision. I can’t be expected to live in limbo. Dan won’t come back, and if I believe differently, than I’m more of a fool than I was for pretending he didn’t pick up women. My God, it’s a wonder I never got a disease! Oh, stop thinking about it! I’ve spent every single minute since I left Mel Gerstein’s office this morning thinking about it! Other people get divorced and survive, so can I.

Laura allowed Envy to pick his way back to the trail. Despite the heat, he began to jog, knowing he was less than a mile from the farm. “You’re not going to get bad habits at this late date, my friend,” she told him as she slowed him to a walk. As soon as Envy settled down, Laura went right back to justifying her plans for divorcing Dan.

What would it be like, being a single woman? Everyone her age was married. Of course, she reminded herself, Freddy Pratter’s divorced but that doesn’t stop the girls from falling all over him. So, maybe it’s not too bad. I suppose people will talk about me. So what, they’re already talking about me, or rather about Dan. Will I ever know the truth about that baby? How could I be married to a man who would do something like that? I should have paid more attention to what Dan was doing and where he was spending his money.

Now what’s going to become of me? Why, why, why did I ever say those awful things to Jake? I didn’t know how much I cared about him until I pushed him out of my life. Oh, yes, Laura Darvey, you are a stupid, dumb, idiotic moron for doing that.

Laura had come the last mile without paying attention to Envy or the trail. She came out of her reverie when Envy nickered at the horses in pasture as he turned off the river trail onto the path leading to the barn. At the barn she unsaddled him, brushed him, and turned him out in his paddock. “It’s okay for Envy to have water,” she told Jerry, the barn boy.

“Mrs. Darvey,” he said, dragging a hose out to fill the water bucket, “Mrs. Justini called looking for you. She was worried because you were supposed to go someplace with her, but you didn’t call to change plans.”

“My heavens, I completely forgot! I’ll stop there on my way home.

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