Riding Lessons by Sara Gruen

Author:Sara Gruen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061753237
Publisher: HarperCollins

I enter the house quietly, leaving the light off and trying to close the door gently. I know Mutti saw me come home, so I’m guessing she’s asleep by now.

I guess wrong. Seconds later, the hall light comes on and Mutti appears in the doorway, her turquoise housecoat zipped up to the soft wattle of her throat. She flicks the kitchen light on, and stands squinting at me.

“Oh, it’s you,” she says.

“Of course it’s me. Who else could it be?” I say, hanging my purse on a hook by the door. And then I freeze.

“Oh no,” Mutti says slowly, her eyes hardening. “Oh, don’t tell me. She said she’d asked you.”

“She did. I said no.” I spin on my heels. “Oh God. I’m going to kill her.”

“Schatzlein, Schatzlein, Schatzlein.”

“I am. I’m going to kill her. I gave her life, and now I’m going to take it back.”

Almost on cue, we hear gravel crunching under tires. Mutti and I lock eyes. A second later, a car door slams.

“Do you want me to handle this?” says Mutti.

“Why? You think I can’t handle my daughter?”

“Actually, I was offering to be the ogre.”

I turn to her, seeing for the first time the gray semicircles beneath both eyes. I stare at her until I hear the door creaking inward on its hinges.

Eva sees us and freezes. Her eyes dart from me to Mutti and back to me, and then land on Dan’s boxer shorts.

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