The High Season by judy blundell

Author:judy blundell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

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ACROSS THE BAY were dinner parties under shady trees, where the food was never fried and the wines were exquisite, where the women were slender and fresh as stalks of green grass and the men, bare feet in thousand-dollar driving shoes, wore watches worth as much as a house.

She’d always been a scrupulous rule follower of a person. She had always told the waiter if he left something off the bill. She had never cut in a line or gone through a red light, even at one in the morning. Have a headache? Ruthie has aspirin in her purse. A sweating glass? Ruthie will run for the coaster. Heartbreak? Ruthie will bring the wine and the tissues.

Now she was a door off its hinges, and she was ready for the gust of wind that would blow her free. She wanted the bang. The crash. Then a whole lot of open air rushing in.

Would it be a crime, exactly, to take a watch thrown away into a junk pile?

She could walk in the door of her own house and write a check to Mike and the house would be hers. With no rent, only taxes and upkeep, maybe she could cobble together a freelance life, make it through the years before Jem left for college.

Didn’t she need it? Didn’t she deserve it? Didn’t Jem?

A sudden, lucid thought: She was thinking like a criminal. Because wasn’t justification the second step, after desire?

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