Texas Fury by Fern Michaels

Author:Fern Michaels
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2013-02-17T16:00:00+00:00

She was blubbering again and squeezing the cat too tightly. She blew her nose lustily.

“Someday. Perhaps. But not now.” She cried again, hard sobs that shook her thin shoulders.

Adam popped a can of beer to fortify himself for the call he was about to make to his best friend, Nick Deitrick, who went back to first-year college days. Nick the shrink. He was probably the kindest, the most gentle, the wisest man Adam knew.

He’d called on him for help at least a dozen times, for friends, even once for a stranger. Nick had been the one to persuade Sawyer to have the risky operation that saved her life. Adam knew if he called Nick from the middle of the Mojave Desert and asked him to come, he’d drop everything and head out. That was the kind of guy Nick was. Adam considered himself fortunate to be Nick’s friend. He only hoped Nick felt the same way about him.

Adam swigged from the beer can. This was new—drinking beer at one in the afternoon. Summertime was a different story. He propped his basketball player’s long legs on the ironing board and dialed long distance.

Nick picked up the phone on the third ring. “Dr. Deitrick here.”

“This is Adam Jarvis,” Adam said loftily, “here. That’s here in Texas. How are you?”

“Well, if it isn’t Farmer Jarvis himself. How’s things on the south forty, or whatever it is you guys say?”

“I’m a rancher, not a farmer. Well, sort of . . . if you know what I mean.”

“Hell, yes, you’re pissing your life away pretending to be something you aren’t,” Nick said. “How many gopher holes you step in lately? Bet you thought I didn’t know about gophers. By the way, you doing any real work?”

Adam knew he was referring to his political cartooning. “Haven’t had time. This ranching is a hard life. Plus, I have to cook, clean, iron, saw wood, chauffeur, and a whole lot of other shit.”

“I understand everything but sawing wood. Why?”

“Why? That’s what you’re supposed to do. We have a chain saw,” Adam added, as if that explained everything.

As if by some prearranged signal the teasing banter between the two old friends gave way to seriousness. “I thought I’d extend an invitation. I’d like it if you’d come for a week, or even just a weekend. Riley would take you horseback riding out on the south forty, and Cole will take you up in the Dream Machine. I . . . I could use some help, Nick. Everybody in Texas is fucked up these days.”

Nick’s voice was pained when he replied. “I thought this was supposed to be a vacation. With a few little talks on the side—as in therapy, huh? You’d think I went to medical school just to help your friends.”

“You know you’re coming, so why are you badgering me? You took an oath, remember? To heal the sick in mind?”

“This is the last time I’m coming through for you, Jarvis. I wish to God you’d cultivate some other friends in the medical field.

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