Now and Always by Lori Copeland

Author:Lori Copeland
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Publisher: Zondervan

Seventeen

Warren phoned later, and Katie listened to his list of Clara grievances. “You’ve got to get rid of her, Katie. I can’t stay outside day and night — though that’s preferable to being with her.”

“What’s she done now?”

“What hasn’t she done? Taken over my house, dominates the conversation, and we don’t have the same political views. I make her smoke outside in the metal shed, and she’s highly ticked.”

“So don’t talk politics. Change the subject and ask her to smoke in the well house. She wouldn’t like that either, but it is a concrete building, and she wouldn’t be visible.”

“The woman is obsessed with government. She lives, eats, and breathes it. She comes across as concerned, but let me tell you, that broad is hard as nails. She’d sell Neil Townsend down the river to save her own neck and never shed a tear.”

“Please don’t call her a broad.”

“She is a broad.”

His gruff, blustery tone disturbed Katie. The whole situation had been hard on him, and she regretted that she was the primary cause of his distress. But broad was a disrespectful term in her opinion. The whole cauldron was her fault. If she had been able to keep Clara in line, the press might not have found her so easily.

Maybe in the end, it would all work out for the good. Clara, though probably as guilty as Neil, could now finish her campaign and go home and the shelter could return to normal. The holidays were fast approaching and Katie, for one, would be glad when this whole mess was over. Everyone would be glad. Only one good thing could be said of the invasion. Clara had certainly livened up Little Bush. This was the most excitement they’d had since the high school basketball team won the state playoffs.

Needless to say, Warren was eager for his guest to check out. “It amazes me how the press plays Neil Townsend as a crooked scoundrel and Clara as Mother Teresa.”

Katie couldn’t quite picture Clara in the simple white sari Mother Teresa had adopted to identify herself with the poor. The true extent of the woman’s involvement in her husband’s activities might never be known, but Katie wouldn’t be surprised to learn in later years that she had known and probably orchestrated much of Neil’s criminal activity.

“Well, you know the media,” she said. “Anything to boost ratings.”

“You’re lucky to have kept her hidden this long. It was only a matter of time before they found her.”

“Right. Look, Warren, I know she can be a headache, but can you keep her a little longer, at least until we can arrange a way to get her away from Little Bush?”

“Katie, I’ll do it for you, but you do something for me. You think about closing that shelter. Everyone thinks I’m the bad guy, that I’m should be looking after your interests. The truth is I am looking after your interests. I care for you, Katie, and I care if you’re in danger. Your friends

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