Until She Met Daniel by Callie Endicott

Author:Callie Endicott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2014-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON, Susan exited the grocery store and glared at the flier adorning her car’s windshield.

NO WATER FOR BIG BUSINESS

DON’T BE FORCED TO PAY HUGE FOR WATER

SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN

Not cleverly written, but it would ensure people would think the water issue was entirely to support the paper mill, and that any project would cost residents a fortune. As for leaving it on her car? That was just plain tactless. It was possible that whoever had put it there didn’t know it was her vehicle, but it still felt like a personal slap in the face.

Susan grabbed the paper and ripped it into tiny shreds. She was tempted to let them fly around the Handy Spandy parking lot, but she actually did care about the environment, no matter what her jackass of a husband thought. So she wadded up the paper and tucked it into the trash sack she kept in the car. She’d put it into the recycle bin at home.

Home.

A wave of sadness swept through her. The house didn’t feel like home right now, just a bunch of silent rooms where she turned on the television to fill up the empty spaces with some sort of noise. Even when she was trying to sleep, she kept the radio or TV playing low—anything to distract her brain from cycling the same things over and over again.

Her cell phone rang...with the ringtone she’d programmed years ago for Chris. Was he calling to say he was sorry?

Snatching the phone, she punched the button. “Hello,” she said cautiously.

“It’s me.”

“Yeah.”

“I just want to know if you’ve told Evan about us.”

She almost threw the phone across the parking lot, but stopped herself in time. “No.”

“Okay. Because I wasn’t going to say anything, either. Let him get well started in his schoolwork without being distracted.”

“That’s what I thought, but it’s taking a risk. One of his friends might tell him.”

“Yeah, but his closest buddies are attending other colleges or have joined the service, so they’re probably too busy to talk. And since he can’t get away for Thanksgiving after all, he might not have to hear anything for a while.”

Evan had texted a few days before that his boss wanted him to work on the holiday. Susan had felt worse than ever.

“I hope so.” She clenched her fingers. Obviously Chris didn’t think he was moving back in the foreseeable future. And except for the City Council meeting, they’d barely spoken since he’d packed a bag in a huff and walked out—how did you fix a marriage if you didn’t talk?

“Okay, that’s all I needed to know,” Chris said.

She didn’t say goodbye, just punched the off button.

Poor Evan.

She had believed they’d provided a stable background, showing him a good model of a healthy relationship. How were they going to face him with this kind of news? Of course...she and Chris weren’t actually divorced. They hadn’t even filed for a legal separation, or whatever couples did when their marriage was in that much trouble.

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