The Corner Booth Chronicles by Mimi Thebo

Author:Mimi Thebo [Thebo, Mimi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-51490-5
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2009-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

With so many Latino members of the congregation attending the Saturday night Mass, Father Gaskin was not surprised that the Sunday morning Mass was paler than usual. Having already heard something of what had passed the previous evening, he was also not unduly surprised that Pattie Walker was paler than usual.

Eucharist is a telling time for the observant. It takes a powerful distraction for a Catholic to receive the body and blood of Christ on autopilot, and Father Gaskin was aware that this was what Pat-tie was doing, that for all the attention she was paying the occasion, she could just as well have been sampling a new cracker variety out at Food Barn. Mrs. Walker’s mental anguish radiated from her like a sixteenth-century Italian halo. Instead of guiding the boys with hands on shoulders and backs of necks, the boys guided her. And now it was Father Gaskin’s turn to be on autopilot through the following five or six recipients as he wondered what he could do to save this family, given how wrong things had gone during his last intervention.

But the next intervention would come from a much different place.

Miss Tiffany Nordelson was twenty-four years old and a native of the county seat. She had recently returned to live there, having failed to establish herself somewhere in the Rockies. She was pleasing to the eye, if you didn’t mind the obvious artificiality of several of her attractions, and had a low, sexy voice, which she cultivated with late nights and Jack Daniels.

Tiffany had recently installed broadband, and it had been a pain. Such a pain, indeed, that a senior telephone engineer was required to inspect the work of three previous members of staff and resolve the various issues involved. This is how Tiffany had become acquainted with Phil Walker. Tiffany, making not-so-discreet inquiries, had discovered that Phil was a family man in the midst of marital crisis. For most women, this information would substantially lessen any interest they had developed, but Tiffany was a far-sighted young lady who seemed to feel that a mortgage-free family home and a wife with her own business augured well for Phil’s future as a divorced and available mate.

Now, though the vast majority of Eudora spends its Sunday mornings scrubbed and clean and in houses of worship, and a clear majority of citizens in the county seat does the same, there are other ways of spending Sunday mornings. A substantial proportion of citizens in the county seat spend Sunday mornings sitting in the sun and wishing they’d remembered to buy beer on Saturday evening, or in front of the television quietly getting stoned, in the blissful realization that they will not be working for another twenty hours.

Tiffany was among the latter group, and she suspected that Phil Walker was also one of life’s hedonists, and that in his current domestic sojourn as Chuck Warren’s houseguest, he would welcome a visit from a like-minded young lady.

So Tiffany packed up a present, something she’d been saving for just such an occasion.

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