Pulling Home by Mary Campisi

Author:Mary Campisi [Campisi, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 0985777303
Publisher: Mary Campisi
Published: 2012-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

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Under any other circumstances, Audra would have turned and run from the

shuttered Victorian which housed one of Holly Springs’ founding families. The

Ruittenberg name was splashed on buildings, street signs, even the community pool.

They were not a friendly people. While in office, the Honorable Victor

Ruittenberg faxed drunk and disorderly convictions to The Holly Springs Sentinel as a lesson for the ‘weak in spirit’. His wife, Telda, refused to let her staff eat indoors or use the bathroom facilities, demanding they find other accommodations. The daughters, Glenda and Gretchen possessed a similar air of superiority, labeling girls without designer clothes cheap and tawdry though rumor had it Glenda made out with two thirds of the football team senior year and Gretchen stole enough lipstick and eye shadow from Mr. Crutchfield’s Drugstore to open a cosmetic counter. Her name did not appear in the weekly newspaper blotter.

The Ruittenberg’s only son, Malcolm, held the distinction of robbing a liquor

store and a bingo hall in the same night, not that he needed vodka or money as one could find plenty of both in the Ruittenberg cupboards. Rumor had Malcolm performing the deeds to force his father into a moral dilemma, which of course, the Honorable Judge failed when he threw his son’s case out of court for lack of evidence or witnesses, which then prompted the sixteen year old to steal a car and parade it down Main Street. He got plenty of witnesses, evidence, and a three year sentence.

Audra glanced at the wobbly handwriting on the paper she held. Doris O’Brien

had written three names, two were Audra’s potential fathers and the third had

information. Malcolm Ruittenberg was number one on the list. Audra worked her way up the brick walk lined with blood-red petunias and rang the doorbell. A young woman of no more than twenty opened the door dressed in a French maid outfit complete with fishnets and stilettos.

“I’m looking for Mr. Ruittenberg. Is he available?” Audra tried not to stare at the girl’s cleavage which resembled a Victoria Secrets’ cover.

“Depends,” she said, giving Audra a long once over. “Are you one of Trilla’s

girls? Mal didn’t like the last one they sent, said she was too young, even for him.”

Too young for what?

“Come on in. You’re a little on the old side but you might do. Put your shoes over there.” She pointed to a brown Rubbermaid tray. “Mal doesn’t like shoes in the house.”

She glanced down at her own four-inch heels and shrugged, “Unless we’re playing dress up.”

Please do not let this pervert be my father. Audra shoved the paper with names on it in her pocket and followed the French maid down a corridor lined with gold-framed photographs of dogs. When they reached the end of the corridor, the woman knocked softly and said in jerky French, “You have a visitor, Monsieur Malcolm.” A stream of perfect French blasted the door. The woman teetered back on her stilettos and said, “I think that means he doesn’t want to see you.”

Kara’s life could

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