Days of Wonder by Caroline Leavitt

Author:Caroline Leavitt [LEAVITT, CAROLINE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2024-04-23T00:00:00+00:00

IT WASN’T, OF course. Jude’s father began to notice how often Jude was out with “that girl.” He kept warning Jude, his voice taut with anger. Now, not even the refuge of his bedroom offered him a buffer from his father’s rage.

“Get down here,” Judge Stein routinely shouted up the stairs. “I’m tired of you not listening to me.” And then things would always escalate into another beating. His father made his apologies in the form of gifts: video consoles, a ten-speed bike, a new computer. But still he would wind back to his old self and say yet again, “I don’t want you seeing that girl.”

Jude left the gifts untouched.

No matter what his father thought, Jude and Ella were meant to be together. Jude knew it. Ella knew it. Maybe Helen knew it too, but Jude never asked her. As soon as they were eighteen, they’d get married. Nothing special, just a justice of the peace with Helen as a witness, and Ella in a filmy dress that Helen would have hand-sewn especially for her. They’d buy some land upstate and have a little farm; they could even open a stand to sell their excess produce.

“We can have dogs,” Jude told her. “And cats and goats and make cheese and sell that, too.”

“How many kids?” Ella said. “Still six?”

“Two. One with your face. One with mine. Or two with your face because it’s so gorgeous. And mine is just funny.”

His father couldn’t stop them. No one and nothing could.

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