Faithful by Kim Cash Tate

Author:Kim Cash Tate
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-08-11T21:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

PHYLLIS SAT BACK in her chair, moving her eyes in disbelief from Cyd to Dana and back to Cyd. “You’re telling me you actually saw Scott and this woman, I mean actually . . .”

Cyd lowered her fork and gave Phyllis a pointed look. “Yes. It was awful.”

The women were gathered around Cyd’s kitchen table. Potluck usually consisted of Phyllis and Dana bringing the side dishes and Cyd cooking the meat. But with the short notice, Phyllis just returning from her trip, and Dana living far short of normality, Cyd volunteered to prepare the entire meal. She said she’d keep it simple, so Phyllis and Dana were surprised to see that she’d made roast chicken, au gratin potatoes, and green beans, and even stopped to get the dinner rolls they all liked. On top of that, she’d set a table complete with flowers and candles.

Recovering from her initial shock, Phyllis took a sip of Pellegrini from a crystal water glass, another first for their dinners. “I can’t imagine what happened next.”

Cyd held a forkful of potatoes. “Well, I had my little encounter with Heather.” She eased the food into her mouth.

“What?” Phyllis had lifted a piece of chicken to her mouth but put it back down. “What happened?”

Dana hadn’t touched her food yet. She’d been listening as Cyd told the story, her gaze cast downward. She looked up now. “I don’t think we ever talked about that part. I heard some of it, but I never got the whole story.”

Cyd leaned in, visibly annoyed by it still. “I was so stunned to see her that I said, ‘What are you doing here?’” She frowned and lifted her palms. “She had all this attitude, saying I wouldn’t understand and rolling her eyes, then fixing her hair in the mirror like it was no big deal. Something inside me just snapped, and I told her she needed to leave.”

“So, Cyd,” Phyllis began tentatively, “don’t you think the attitude was a cover? I’m sure deep down she knows she’s wrong. Maybe she never intended for things to go that far, and once she was in over her head, she didn’t know how to step out of it emotionally.”

Phyllis was experiencing the same feelings she’d had after Scott’s confession. She was able to put herself in Heather’s shoes. Though Rod wasn’t a married man, she was a married woman, and if she had acted on the impulses she felt, she would have been no better than Heather.

Cyd thought a moment. “I don’t know if it was a cover, and I don’t know what she’s feeling deep down. And frankly, up until this moment I didn’t care, because I had zero sympathy for her.” She broke off a piece of roll and held it. “But I guess we should be praying for her too.”

Awkward seconds passed as Dana stared off to the side. Cyd quickly picked up with the rest of what happened Friday, up until the point when Scott returned and she and Trish left.

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