Reforming Jane by Maggie Carpenter

Author:Maggie Carpenter [Carpenter, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stormy Night Publications
Published: 2016-05-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Even though it was raining, Jane decided to walk to LaSalle’s boutique. It was about twenty minutes from the arcade, and after the upside-down conclusion to the lunch she’d thought would be so much fun, she needed to clear her head. Popping up her umbrella, she marched down the street, and as she walked she began to ponder Henry’s concerns.

Perhaps he was right. What she’d done was dishonest, but that was her life, and had been ever since she’d stolen the money from the tin can on the top shelf of the kitchen cabinet in her last foster home. The day she’d become Jane Campbell was the day she’d taken control of her destiny, and she’d done very well, thank you very much. Given their vastly different backgrounds, and how they lived in the world, was there any hope for her and Henry? Would she end up heartbroken and miserable? She was crooked and he was straight, painfully straight, but he was also the first man who had made her feel things, deep things, and those things weren’t just physical.

“I think about you all the time,” she mumbled, almost unaware of the water splashing around her expensive leather boots. “Even when I don’t want to think about you, I’m thinking about you, and the way you look at me, oh, Henry, you turn me into mush. This is so unfair. Why do you have to be so straitlaced? Was what I arranged for us at lunch today so terrible? And I help people with the money I make. I told you that, I help people.”

Noticing worried faces as they hurried by her, she realized she was talking out loud, and pausing her step, she looked around to get her bearings. She’d been so lost in her thoughts she’d passed the block she should have turned down.

“Darn it,” she grumbled. Irritated at her lack of attention, she started back.

Bernie had a laundry list of clichés. Everything in life is determined by…, the most important thing if life is…, success depends upon…, etc., and as she approached the end of the block, one such saying began to clang loudly in her head.

Timing in life is everything.

Had she not been thinking about Henry, she would have rounded the block when she should have, and had she not realized where she was when she did, the circumstances in which she suddenly found herself would be different. Timing in life is everything. Never was that truer than at that moment. Amanda, Sylvia, and Susan were walking directly toward her.

For a fleeting few seconds, Jane thought she must be imagining things. The tiresome trio never walked anywhere, let alone in the rain, and the LaSalle boutique was a good ten minutes away. What the hell were they doing there?

There was perilously little time to make a decision; turn around and get the heck out of there, or seize the moment. In seconds she would be separated from the girls by only a few feet. Another of Bernie’s sayings sprang to mind.

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