Nell and Lady_A Novel by Ashley Farley

Author:Ashley Farley [Farley, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503903005
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2018-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

NELL

Nell sat at the kitchen counter drinking coffee and staring at the Saturday newspaper. She’d read the same headline twenty times. CHARLESTON’S TRAFFIC CONGESTION PROBLEMS WORSEN. “Tell me something I don’t know,” she said, letting the paper drop to the counter.

The things Booker had said on the patio the other night had haunted her for days. Daniel Sterling had been the one who’d assaulted her, but she’d taken her anger at him out on white people in general. With the exception of her patients, of course. She prided herself on treating each of them the same. If she’d gotten help back then, she would’ve lived a more fulfilled life, would’ve felt like a whole person instead of this broken resemblance of one.

She left the counter with her coffee and sauntered around the room, considering the bare spots on the walls in the sitting area where the prized pieces of her art collection had once hung. This house had never been much of a home, merely a place to park their possessions. Truth be told, between their complicated work schedules and Booker’s extracurricular activities, they’d rarely spent much time there. Desmond’s family’s farm in McClellanville held her fondest memories. She and Desmond had spent their first Christmas together at the farm and every major holiday since then. Being in the marshlands with moss-draped trees and salt-infused air restored a sense of peace in her. And she felt comfortable, like she could truly be herself, around his parents, who were always welcoming and never judgmental.

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