Calling Mr Lonely Hearts by Calling Mr Lonely Hearts (epub)

Author:Calling Mr Lonely Hearts (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Group Limited
Published: 2009-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

Week 29 5/7

“I can’t think of a single reason you should see Alice,” Jock said.

They were in the country club’s tavern room, having just finished a long eighteen holes. Outside, a sharp wind was scouring the last few leaves off the trees, and Thad found that even the neat Maker’s Mark he was drinking wasn’t warming him up. The morning had started out clear, but Amber had almost had to push him out the door to play golf with Jock. After their visit to the doctor, he was reluctant to leave her alone, but she had insisted.

“Alice has just been too damned quiet about this whole thing,” he said. “It’s not like her.”

“So what if she’s misplaced a couple of the things we sent over? She hasn’t contested anything so far. That lawyer of hers—Javits—could make plenty of it if she wanted him to. Why he hasn’t dragged your girlfriend into it surprises the hell out of me. It’s the women who get really pissed about the infidelity stuff.”

“She’s got plenty of money from her folks,” Thad said. “What else could she want from me?”

“Some women send their asshole exes dead flowers, some spray paint their Lamborghinis, some try to hire hit men. Of course, most of the prospective hit men they find are Feds anyway. You’d be surprised what will make a woman feel better.”

Thad decided to ignore the “asshole ex” comment. Looking at it objectively, he knew he fit the category. But Jock hadn’t been the one to watch Alice become more and more self-possessed, more focused on transforming herself into something brittle and untouchable, once they’d gotten the final verdict about her being unable to conceive and carry a child. And, by that time, he knew that he didn’t want to have children with her, that she was hardly fit to be a wife, let alone a parent. Sometimes, he thought he was being harsh, but then he would think of Amber and how blessedly normal she was.

“You should meet Amber,” Thad said. “Alice liked her.”

“Oh, that’s ugly,” Jock said.

“Really. You’d like her, too. She’s different.” Thad leaned forward, wanting to convince him. “She doesn’t care about money and status and all that crap.”

The look Jock gave him told him that he’d heard those words plenty of times before. Sometimes, it wasn’t so great having a divorce lawyer for a friend.

By the time he was back in his own car, ready to head back to Amber, Thad was feeling mellow and finally warmed by the whiskey. He thought that maybe Jock was being too nervous, too much of a lawyer. It wouldn’t hurt to drive by the old house, to see if it was still standing after the party he and Amber had witnessed.

There were times when he missed the house on Leopold Avenue, with its long hallways of overdecorated rooms, and the media room that had been his private domain, his place of refuge when he couldn’t risk spending too much time with Amber. Alice

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