Three Good Things by Wendy Francis

Author:Wendy Francis [Francis, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-4516-6641-0
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

“An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.”

—Frank Lloyd Wright

By the time they got home, Benjamin had fallen asleep. Rob managed to move him from his car seat to the crib without waking him.

“Well, that was a little more drama than we needed for one night,” he said as they watched their son sleeping peacefully.

Lanie looked up at him, and for a moment he thought she was about to launch another one of the barbed arrows she’d been shooting for the past days. But she refrained. Maybe the all-too-real reminder of what they’d been through at the children’s hospital almost a year ago was enough to make her drop her weapons for a few hours. He hoped so.

At the hospital tonight when he’d watched Lanie holding Benjamin, he felt the anger and accusations of days past slip away. His family meant more than anything in the world to him. How could Lanie think for one minute that he’d fool around with Samantha? At first, when he’d hung up the phone that fateful night, he’d taken her anger as just that: She was pissed because he was late again and she’d made a nice dinner. The fact that Samantha was there added insult to injury, but nothing more. Lanie knew Samantha, had told him on the way home from the company banquet that she liked her, even felt a wee bit sorry for her after the whole breast-falling-out-of-the-dress incident.

“She’s never going to live that one down no matter how smart and successful she is,” Lanie said. “That’s the thing that totally sucks.”

“A thing you’d know something about,” Rob teased.

“I’d like to think so. Because no matter how smart you are, you’re still just a sex symbol to guys. Did you see how the husbands at the table all tried to look away but couldn’t help themselves?”

“Honey, it was a little hard to overlook.”

“You know what I mean. Samantha will forever be known as ‘that woman whose boob popped out.’ She’ll probably quit next week, it’s that humiliating.”

“You really think so?” Rob hoped that wasn’t the case. “She didn’t seem that bothered by it.” He still needed Sam for the museum project.

“She was too drunk to care, but trust me, it will bother her in the morning.”

“I think Samantha may have earned a little more respect with some of the guys after tonight,” Rob had joked. Though when he thought back on it now, he regretted the comment. Maybe he’d planted the seed for his own wife’s suspicions.

And now when he reconsidered, maybe he was a little guilty even. Maybe he secretly had hoped that Samantha would find him attractive. Not that he’d ever act on it, but it would redeem his manhood in a way. His wife hardly looked at him twice these days. If someone young and attractive like Samantha found him appealing, then he must still have something going on. He tried not to spend much time thinking about his sex life—what was the point?—and in that way, work had been a convenient distraction.

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