Sucker Bet (VV, 4) by Erin McCarthy

Author:Erin McCarthy [McCarthy, Erin]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-02-18T18:19:13+00:00

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Chapter Six

Gwenna listened to the phone ring and wrestled with her conscience. It had to be Roberto. Which meant she wasn't obligated to answer it. But she should turn it to vibrate so it didn't disturb Nate.

Reluctantly leaving the warm bed, and the warmer man, Gwenna slid out from under the blanket and searched for her purse, which was somewhere on the floor. Feeling a little odd scrambling around in the nude, she grabbed on to her panties and wiggled back into them. Then she added her T-shirt for good measure.

Her phone stopped ringing, then started again. She found it and was about to switch it to vibrate when she saw on the screen that it was Alexis calling. Her sister-in-law didn't ring her all that often, so Gwenna found it odd. She answered, horrible visions of something tragic having happened to Brittany, the baby, or Ethan.

"Yes?" She kept her voice low, very conscious of Nate two feet away. But he was sleeping hard, not stirring at all.

"Okay, we have a girl crisis. Are you busy or can you come over?"

Alexis always cut right to the heart of things. "What crisis?"

"Kelsey is here, crying her eyes out, and babbling about her marriage being over… she's totally destroyed, her mascara is all bleeding down her face, and I don't know what the hell to do with her. You know I suck at comforting people. Cara's back in Ireland, Brit's in the hospital, so you're all I've got. I need you to come and say the right things."

Walking out into the hall so she didn't disturb Nate, Gwenna wanted to both roll her eyes and laugh simultaneously. "I hardly know Kelsey. I doubt she'd appreciate me showing up right now."

"But you're very maternal. Please?"

Gwenna made a face. That was absolutely the way to make her feel guilty. Grateful she couldn't show up on the security cameras since she was rumpled in nothing but her T-shirt and panties, Gwenna paced back and forth. "Okay, fine, but I can't really see what I can do."

"Well, it will definitely be better than my handling of the situation. I told her she was better off without that junkie sack of shit husband of hers, and now she's locked in my bathroom bawling."

"You called her husband a junkie sack of shit?" Gwenna sometimes suspected Alexis was missing the gene for tact.

"It's the truth." Alexis sounded defensive. "You've met Ringo. He's a waste of space."

Gwenna had met Ringo only once at Roberto's when she had gone to discuss her ex-husband's stubborn insistence on continuing to pay her alimony she neither needed nor wanted. Kelsey's husband had been quiet, clearly a drug abuser, though Gwenna had felt more desperation from him than anything else. He'd looked like he was in a silent agony, begging for a way out. She hadn't sensed any violence from him, and she believed everyone deserved a second chance, despite what Alexis was always saying about every offender being a repeat offender waiting to happen.

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