Someday by Karen Kingsbury

Author:Karen Kingsbury
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Adult, Fiction
ISBN: 9780842387491
Publisher: Not Avail
Published: 2007-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

Rain started falling well before sunup. Ashley would’ve made a day of staying home and pushing Tonka trucks across the family room floor with Devin, but during breakfast she noticed they were almost out of milk.

“Looks like we’ll be taking a quick trip to the store.” Ashley sat at the kitchen table, adjacent to Devin’s high chair, and tickled his chin.

He giggled and slapped his hand against the Cheerios scattered across his tray.

His hair was just as blond as Cole’s but it was curly, and in the mornings it stuck out in a dozen different directions. Devin used his whole hand to slip two pieces of cereal into his mouth. When he succeeded, he grinned. “Big tuck!”

“Yes, big, big trucks. We’ll play when we get home.” Ashley stood and cleared her own bowl. “First we get an adventure to the store! In the rain!” She laughed quietly to herself. Her mom had taught her how to laugh at rainy Mondays.

“Life’s only as fun as you make it,” she would say. The sentiment was something Ashley wanted to pass down to her kids as well.

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After breakfast, Ashley dressed Devin in his most snuggly sweatshirt and jeans.

She dug out her favorite coat, and they headed for the market.

Twice between the display of Jonathan apples and the milk shelves at the back of the store, she ran into people she knew. A mom with a boy in Cole’s class and the receptionist at her hairstylist’s studio. Both women seemed nervous when they saw Ashley, unwilling to maintain eye contact. Instead they hurried on with their shopping.

The first woman made just one statement. “It must be hard for your family, with Dayne Matthews always in the news.”

Ashley smiled and shrugged. “It’s the nature of his business.” She thought back to the time when she and her siblings had made the tabloids, after the paparazzi found out that Dayne had reunited with the family he’d never known. “I think we’re getting used to it.”

Ashley filled her cart with two gallons of milk, a few loaves of her favorite wheat-berry bread, a pound of sliced turkey, and a bunch of bananas - Cole’s favorite. Then she headed to the front of the store.

She saw the cover of the magazine even before she reached the checkout. There for all the world to see was a full-size photo of a woman who was clearly Randi Wells, sharing a passionate kiss with a man who from the side certainly appeared to be Dayne. The headline read, “Dayne Matthews Caught Red-Handed!”

Ashley’s head began to spin, and a rush of adrenaline coursed through her veins.

Her heart slammed into double time, and she gripped the cart handle so she wouldn’t fall to her knees. What in the world was Dayne doing? She removed one shaking hand from the cart and reached for the magazine.

That’s when she noticed it wasn’t the only magazine with the picture. Each of the five tabloids had the photo in one form or another, and all with a similarly condemning headline.

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