Lear Family 3 - Miss Fortune by Julia London

Author:Julia London
Language: fr
Format: mobi
Tags: Contemporary
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2010-09-02T22:00:00+00:00

When Rachel hit the gym Monday morning, Lori, the desk jockey, said, “Wow! I mean, you’ve been coming almost a whole month now!” as Rachel signed in. And judging by her half-sneer, she was losing the office pool on that one.

Rachel did twenty miles on the bike and even a few weights before heading off for Turbo Temps with a pay slip and the caterer’s black skirt in hand. An hour later, she left Turbo Temps without the skirt and ten dollars lighter, but with a paycheck and a three-day job. Yessir, as of 7:30 in the morning, she was entering the heady world of fishing industry’s processing and production phases.

Her next stop was the Brown University library so that she could continue her search for a dissertation topic. By the time she arrived home, her head was hurting and her sight was blurred from reading such tiny print all afternoon, but she believed she was very close to settling on a topic.

Fortunately, her sight wasn’t so blurred that she couldn’t see the red light blinking on her answering machine. She put down her bag and checked the display. There were three messages; she punched the playback button.

“Hey. Call me,” Dagne said into the phone. In the background, Rachel could hear the familiar sound of a computer keyboard being tapped at warp speed and figured Dagne was buying off eBay again. “See you,” she said, and hung up.

Rachel took off her coat and kicked off her shoes as the answering machine moved to the second message. “Ah…

Rachel, this is Flynn. You know—the chap who saved you from certain incarceration?“

Rachel immediately turned around to beam happily at the answering machine.

“As it happens, I’ve been thinking quite a lot about you, and frankly, I’m rather disappointed you’re not in. In the future, I’d request that you might better anticipate when I might ring you,” he said, and she turned her beaming up a notch. “We’re still on for Wednesday, are we? If it’s not a bother, could you possibly ring me and let me know for certain? There’s a love.” He rattled off the number. Rachel memorized it, etched it into her conscious thoughts for all of time. “Cheers, then,” he said, and clicked off.

She was still smiling when the machine moved to the last message. “This is Mr. Donald Gregory calling for Miss Rachel Lear.”

Surprised, Rachel looked at the machine. “I regret to bother you at home, but I must reluctantly inform you that I will not be attending class tomorrow evening,” he said evenly. “My wife passed away today after a lengthy illness.”

He said it as if he was announcing he’d had a gall bladder attack.

Rachel didn’t know if she should be more startled by his apathy at having lost his wife or the fact that he had a wife. She would have sworn he had a boy toy or an ancient queen stashed away in a tiny apartment.

“While this is very sad news, it is also a blessing,” he continued stoically.

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