Mama Moon by Tess Thompson

Author:Tess Thompson [Thompson, Tess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 4kids5cats Editions

10

Jasper

“You’re doing what?” Jennie asked from the bathroom stall next to me.

“I want to see what he did to the house.”

“Okay,” Jennie said, elongating the vowels.

“Don’t okay me. It’s not what you think. I’m not even divorced yet.”

“I didn’t say a word.”

I stood and pulled my wool stockings back up and smoothed the front of my dress. “You’re pretty sure he’s not a serial killer, right?”

“Can one ever be entirely sure?” Jennie asked, before her toilet flushed.

I stepped out of the stall to wash my hands. Jennie had beaten me there and was scrubbing her hands like a doctor before a surgery. She’d always been worried about germs. When we were kids, her hands used to get red and chapped.

“I’m not weird about germs,” Jennie said, reading my mind.

“I didn’t say a word,” I said, echoing her previous statement.

Jennie dried her hands with a paper towel, then grabbed another. “Give him a chance. He’s a really nice guy. Although you know what they say about rebound guys.”

“I don’t know.”

“Everyone knows a rebound guy will never be the one.”

“I’m not looking for a guy. Anyway, who is going to want a woman with five unruly boys?”

“They’re not unruly. Colorful maybe, but not naughty.”

“You haven’t seen them at bedtime,” I said.

She placed her hands on my wrists and looked me in the eye. “You deserve the best there is in this life, Stella McKinnon. It’s time you start taking what’s yours.”

I had no idea what that meant, but I nodded and smiled to appease her. “Sure. No problem.”

“Don’t forget how much I love you,” Jennie said. “Whatever happens.”

Why did it feel as though she was saying much more than the words suggested? She turned to leave, but I grabbed her hand and pulled her around to face me. “Hey, are we all right? It felt weird between us yesterday.”

“Of course we’re fine.” She wasn’t meeting my gaze though. Something was off.

We walked out of the bathroom together but parted ways so she could rejoin Mark at the table as I headed out the front door. Jasper, as promised, was waiting with the truck running. I hoisted myself up and into the passenger seat, enjoying the leather smell once again. “Oh, that heat feels good.” I placed my hands over the heating vents for a moment.

“This weather’s no joke.” Jasper backed up his truck and then pulled out to the main drag of town, mostly dark this time of night. The grocery store stayed open until nine. When we drove by, I saw a lone checker flipping through a magazine, probably counting the minutes until she could go home.

A layer of frost sparkled in the headlights as we headed down the highway in the direction of my ranch. About a mile before we would have reached my place, Jasper took a left into his dirt driveway. A light over his front door beckoned to us. A shape of a cat in the window drew my attention. “You have a cat?”

“Yeah, that’s Penny. The love of my life.

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