The Cure for Modern Life by Lisa Tucker

Author:Lisa Tucker [Tucker, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780743492805
Google: c4XcQvHooboC
Amazon: 1602852073
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2008-03-17T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Heroes of the Twenty-first Century

Though Amelia had never heard of Danny’s bad karma theory, she still knew something bad had happened to her that night. She worked so hard to keep it from meaning anything, but her life kept conspiring against her.

When Matthew was locked in his room and she thought he’d had a heart attack or a stroke, her fear was all too real, though she knew she’d feel this way about anybody: a neighbor, a friend, and, yes, someone from her past like Matthew. She didn’t get worried about her own response until it struck her that he’d been fired, and then her anger was so sudden and intense it was like she’d been transported back to when they’d lived together. She took it personally, that he was finally doing the one thing she’d wanted all along; he was leaving that stupid company. Now, when it was years too late.

She was sitting on the bed with him. He looked dejected, but also vulnerable and strangely younger, like the guy in Baltimore who’d called her “little red-haired girl.” She didn’t decide to hurt him, but she had to distance herself from the sudden overwhelming sense that she didn’t understand her own emotions. She couldn’t show how she really felt about him being fired, so she chose a reaction that would make sense. She acted happy about it. She acted like it was a purely good thing, because, after all, it was. Her personal reaction was irrelevant. A smart man was leaving an evil corporation. That was obviously a reason to celebrate.

She knew Matthew was depressed about leaving AD, but unfortunately, his feelings didn’t make her think he was a die-hard pharma sleazebag, still wishing he could spin lies to market his overpriced products to the unsuspecting public. His sadness made her feel sorry for him—and that infuriated her. Why should she feel bad for him? He had so much money now and the rest of his life to do exactly as he pleased. If he wanted to get married, he could; if he wanted children, he could have a dozen of them. Waiting all these years to leave that company hadn’t hurt him in the slightest. And it hadn’t hurt her, it couldn’t have, unless she had some kind of unresolved feelings, which would mean she was losing her mind.

After she left, she thought she’d handled it as well as she could have under the circumstances. She didn’t regret saying she’d come over only to check on Danny and Isabelle; why should she? It was just like Matthew saying he was only taking care of her for Ben. They were nothing to each other anymore, and that was the truth. Everything else was confusion, probably caused by the hormones that were making her breasts ache and her stomach churn and her mind an emotional wreck.

Since she and Ben had checked into the Philly hotel on Saturday, she’d been crying off and on for all kinds of reasons: because she missed her tiny staff, her friends, even her apartment in Brooklyn.

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