Errands & Espionage by Sam Tschida

Author:Sam Tschida [TSCHIDA, SAM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2024-08-07T00:00:00+00:00

Wednesday morning before work and school, Greene household

It was Granny’s first day watching the kids. On her way out the door, Gabby called, “Remember, no gluten!” Also fingers crossed that Granny was safe behind the wheel. LA traffic for an eighty-year-old woman who hadn’t gone anywhere for years—that was no joke.

“Gluten?” Granny said the word like she’d never heard of it. “What is that anyway?”

“It’s in bread.”

“What? Who can’t eat bread?” Granny was incredulous. “Gabby, how do you expect that boy to grow?”

“Lucas has allergies. He can’t eat eggs, dairy, nuts, or gluten.”

Granny squinted at her. “What can he eat?”

That was a fair question.

Before she left, Gabby looked at Lucas and said, “Granny is in charge this morning, so you listen to her.” With a deep breath, she said, “I need you to be a big boy. You know what you can and can’t eat, right?”

He nodded.

“It’s your job to be careful and take care of yourself.”

“Huh?” He looked confused.

Was this the first time she’d ever mentioned this to him, the first time she’d asked him to take personal responsibility? He could build a world in Minecraft and knew everything about sharks. She could probably ask him to do a little more.

“Lucas, I can’t always be there, so you need to pay attention. You copy?”

Another realization smacked her upside the head. This was probably how someone became a Phil, man babies who couldn’t do anything for themselves except make money. Phils weren’t born. They were made. In doing everything for these kids, she was shirking her responsibility to make them into decent humans.

She looked at Kyle and said, “I love you. Make sure Granny doesn’t kill anyone.”

Kyle laughed—a real laugh. “Okay, Mom. It’s fine.”

What was going on? Everything was going to hell in a handbasket, she wasn’t doing any of the mom things she normally did while she messed around with the EOD and the Mafia, but something in Kyle had loosened. An error screen flashed in her mind. The inputs did not compute. Had she been holding on too tight?

Granny thrust a coffee into Gabby’s hand and handed her her purse. “Relax, Gabriella. No one is going to die.”

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