Home Run by Jenna Bennett

Author:Jenna Bennett [Bennett, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Magpie Ink

Five

I read it. And then I read it again. And one more time for good measure. Through it all, Rafe just looked at me while Carrie gurgled in her car seat.

Finally I lowered the piece of paper. I knew what it said. I understood all the words, but I didn’t feel like I’d quite grasped the meaning.

“She’s offering you a job.”

Rafe nodded.

“At the Columbia PD.”

He nodded.

“She wants us to move here. That’s how she’s going to babysit Carrie.”

The corners of his mouth turned up. “I don’t think that’s why she wants us to move here.”

No. I’m sure it wasn’t. “She wants you to work for her.”

He nodded.

“Are you going to do it?”

That was the question of the day, wasn’t it? The twenty million dollar question.

And of course he threw it back at me. “You want me to?”

“I want you to do what makes you happy,” I said. “You have a job you like. We have a place to live in Nashville.” A place that we’d started to think wasn’t the best place to be, perhaps, but a very nice house nonetheless. “I have a job.” Sort of. I didn’t make much money from it, and I’d thought about leaving anyway, after Carrie was born, since my annual dues were coming up for renewal in just a week, and I wasn’t sure it was worth it to keep going when I didn’t seem to be able to sell any houses to save my life. “We’re all right.”

“But your family’s here. My grandma’s here now. Tammy’s gonna be here.”

He’s the only person in the world who calls Tamara Grimaldi Tammy. I don’t know why she puts up with it, since she’s made it very clear that I’m not to call her that.

Anyway, he had a point. Slowly, big parts of our lives were migrating to Sweetwater. Mrs. Jenkins last month, and now Grimaldi.

But on the other hand…

“David will be in Nashville.” And if we moved to Sweetwater, we’d see him less. “And Wendell. And the boys.” The three young men Rafe had been training in undercover procedure for the TBI.

“They’re gonna go to work soon,” Rafe said. “I’m almost done with’em. We started in February. And Wendell’s been talking about retiring.”

Wendell Craig was Rafe’s superior at the TBI. He’d been Rafe’s handler back when Rafe had been undercover. And he was getting on in age. He was probably pushing sixty, like my mother and Audrey. I could understand that he might be ready for a quieter life than the one he got being around Rafe and the three boys my husband had trained to be just like him.

“Maybe he’d want to retire to Sweetwater.” I smiled optimistically.

Rafe didn’t smile back. After a second, I pushed up from the velvet loveseat that’s been sitting in the parlor for the past hundred-plus years, and reached for the baby. “I’m going to take Carrie upstairs and feed her. She’s probably due for a diaper change and a nap, too. Why don’t you take the car out for a drive while I do?”

“I have a better idea,” Rafe said.

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