You've Got Game by Patricia Kay

Author:Patricia Kay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2005-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

That night, when Lorna walked into her house—dripping wet from a forty-five minute run—her phone was ringing. She debated just ignoring it until she’d had a chance to shower and change, then thought she’d at least check the Caller ID.

It was her sister Chloe.

Lorna sighed, but she answered. “Hold on a minute, Chloe. Let me get a towel to dry off. I just got in from jogging.”

“Jogging outside? Why don’t you buy yourself a treadmill?”

Lorna made a face, glad Chloe couldn’t see her. “I’m going to put the phone down for a minute. I’ll be right back.” She didn’t wait to see if Chloe agreed or not. Instead, she set down the phone and headed for the bathroom. Once she’d dried herself off, she hung the towel around her neck, picked up the phone and walked toward the kitchen with the intention of retrieving a bottle of water from the refrigerator. “Okay,” she said to her sister. “I’m dry now.”

“Has Mother called you?” Chloe said.

“Mother? No. I haven’t talked to her in a week. Why? Is something wrong?” Surely Amy or Bryce would have called her if something was wrong.

“You could say that.”

“What?” Lorna said, alarmed now.

“Mother is getting married again.”

“What?” Lorna stopped in the act of twisting the top off her bottle of water. “To whom? I didn’t even know she was dating anyone.”

“She wasn’t. This whole thing is crazy, Lorna. Just crazy. Get this. She’s going to marry her masseur!”

“Her masseur!”

“Yes. Some young stud that she’s been going to for a whole two months. It’s disgusting. He’s my age. Thirty-eight! And she’s sixty-five. I know she doesn’t look it, thanks to all her cosmetic surgery, but the fact remains that she is. God, Lorna, everyone is going to laugh their fool heads off over this. It’s a cliché. Rich, silly, older woman loses her head over handsome young stud. How stupid is that? Couldn’t she just have sex with him? Does she have to marry him?”

Now that Lorna had had a chance to digest Chloe’s startling revelation, she was starting to feel amused. Proper Kathleen Bryce Hathaway was thumbing her nose at the world? The same Kathleen Bryce Hathaway who, for years, had been so obsessed about her social position? The very same Kathleen Bryce Hathaway that had practically written the book on proper behavior? Lorna bit back a smile. “What does Grandmother have to say about all this?”

“What do you think? She’s furious. She told Mother to get out of the house if she was going to behave in such a scandalous way.”

“Oh, my.” For one of the few times in her adult life, Lorna felt sympathetic toward her mother.

“Lorna, this is a disaster. We’re going to be a laughingstock.”

“Oh, come on, Chloe, it’s not that big a deal, is it? I mean, older women have been making fools of themselves over younger men for longer than we’ve been alive, and the world hasn’t come to an end.”

“Easy for you to say. You don’t live here. And you don’t have a husband or children to worry about.

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