Belated Kiss by Abby Tyler

Author:Abby Tyler [Tyler, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Casey Shay Press

Ruth

After Theodore had gone, Ruth sat for a while in the breakfast nook, looking out on the backyard. She had a picture of Theodore now, but she wasn’t sure she would send it to Christina.

He’d agreed to pose with her in the family room, but he looked pained. Something had definitely gone wrong after she left him alone to fetch the creamer. But what? Had she never told him that Harold was a doctor? Did that matter?

But that moment seemed to be the turning point. He’d sat through the movie, but there was none of their usual warmth. And despite almost kissing her at the Applebottom Courthouse, this time he practically ran out the door.

She decided a chat with a girlfriend was definitely in order. But maybe not with any of her current crowd, who’d all been close to her as Harold’s wife. They all still did the same things they’d done when she was part of a couple — bridge parties, charity events, and the country club.

While she considered them all friends, they weren’t the sort for heart confessions. She needed someone who went a little deeper, preferably someone who’d known her before Harold.

In the end, she called Marilyn, a high school friend she rarely saw these days. But they kept in touch just enough to warrant a lunch invitation. And Marilyn didn’t run in the same circles as Ruth’s other friends, who would be likely to gossip about Ruth’s predicament.

Marilyn met her at a French cafe near the hospital a few days after the troubling dinner with Theodore. It had been almost a year since they’d seen each other face-to-face, and Ruth stood in surprise when Marilyn walked into the restaurant.

They were the same age, of course, and had graduated together. But while Ruth had been a nurse and a doctor’s wife, Marilyn had started a family early, had her husband walk out while the three babies were still small, and she’d raised them alone.

She’d reinvented herself multiple times over the years, working an office job, then becoming a legal secretary, then going to law school herself. The last time Ruth had seen Marilyn, she’d looked intimidating in her power suits and sleek hair. Her stilettos could have punctured a car door. And that was for a weekend brunch.

But today, Marilyn looked laid-back with hair in cute blond spirals, a long, loose sweater, and fluttery skirt. She could pass for forty, easy.

“Marilyn!” Ruth said. “You look fantastic!”

Marilyn moved in for a tight hug. “So do you. Your hair is so wild, like an Earth goddess.”

Ruth laughed. “It’s so good to see you. You’re so casual!”

“Made partner,” Marilyn said. “I have nothing to prove. Farewell, glass ceiling at Hoffman and Ferrero. A woman is at the top.”

Ruth clapped her hands together. “Oh, if that horrid beast of a husband could see you now.”

Marilyn slid her bag on the back of her chair and dropped onto the seat with a grace Ruth envied. Marilyn had definitely come into her own.

“Oh, he did.

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