What You Wish For A Novel (Kerry Reichs) by Kerry Reichs

Author:Kerry Reichs
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Watching the news later, Wyatt wasn’t surprised to see Webb Garner gesticulating in front of a crowd of agitators. He was relieved it had nothing to do with him. He was astonished that it had everything to do with his new friend Maryn.

Andy Speaks

It seemed karma was not a vengeful warrior. Andy didn’t get hit by a bus or attacked by a rabid bald eagle all week after filing the countersuit against Maryn. Not, Andy reminded himself, that he had done anything meriting reprisal. The only mildly interesting deviation from normal was this morning’s protest outside Andy’s office. There were some Social Security Administration offices in his building, so it wasn’t unheard of to find angry Tea Partiers agitating against taxes. Andy kept his head down.

“Candidate Knox, do you have a comment?” Someone shoved a mike in his face. He was startled but plowed through the lobby doors. He wasn’t going to connect himself to antiestablishment protesters. He was relieved when the elevator doors slid closed behind him and a paralegal.

“Irresponsible of the media to give voice to factions on the fringe.” Andy had taken to speaking in sound bites.

The girl didn’t say anything, but Andy sensed recrimination. Perhaps she had been raised on a compound. She wasn’t wearing a linen bonnet or anything, so how could he know?

When the doors opened, the girl hurried off and huddled with the receptionist. Andy strolled to his office. He almost ran into his softball co-captain.

“Hey, Jonesy! Looking forward to tonight!”

The man looked uncomfortable. “You’re playing?”

“Why wouldn’t I?” Andy was confused. “Scared I’ll burn through your mitt with my line drive?”

The lawyer shrugged. Andy continued down a hall as quiet as heavy snow. His secretary averted her eyes. She probably wanted to call her sister to talk about The Bachelor. He shut his office door, wondering why everyone was being weird.

His cell phone rang. Summer. He felt guilty when he ignored it, but on the move-a-potted-plant-to-hide-the-wine-you-spilled-on–the-neighbor’s-rug level rather than the oh-god-I-ran-over-your-cat level.

He tossed his briefcase on the couch. He hadn’t bothered to put anything in it last night. From the outside, an empty briefcase looked the same as one full of gold.

His office phone rang. “Andy Knox.”

“Why didn’t you answer your cell?” Shit.

“Sorry, honey. I must’ve left it in my coat pocket.”

“Turn on the TV.”

“What?”

“Andrew! Turn on the TV, NOW!”

Andy pointed the remote at the small television on his bookshelf. The screen popped to life, splashing a BREAKING NEWS banner across a reporter in a throng.

“Is that my office? I saw them on the way in. It’s no danger, pigeon,” he reassured her. “The TV makes it look bigger than it is.”

“Shut up and listen.”

“. . . if it wasn’t bad enough that the sanctity of life is perverted by creating it in a petri dish, Andrew Knox wants to destroy the very life he created.”

Andy’s blood curdled.

“His lawsuit is an abomination against God. Fragile Voices believes it’s our duty to ensure that these frozen embryos realize their ultimate purpose—life—while sharing the hope of a child with a loving, married, Christian couple.

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