My Best Man by Andy Schell

Author:Andy Schell [Schell, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780758203175
Google: dDyI3YtWG40C
Amazon: 0758203179
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2001-06-01T07:00:00+00:00

had money, but they never cared for me the way they cared for my brother and sister. I was restless. I was at school in Fort Worth, and I didn’t really have any desire to finish. The only thing I ever got an A in was art. My final project was a self-portrait entitled “Rug Burns On My Thighs.” “

“Was it hard earned, that A?” I ask, smiling.

She sits up, looks at me. “Why do you ask me that way?”

I chuckle. “Well, I heard you had a little trouble with a professor.”

“How dare you?” Amity says, her brow wrinkled, her eyes burning a hole in me. “If you know something, don’t act like you don’t.”

“OK,” I say defensively. “I heard from a friend of mine that you slept with a professor and ended up suing him.”

Tears fill her eyes. “Are you enjoying making me feel like trash, Harry Ford? You think you can just say anything you want because of who you are and I’m supposed to take it?”

“God, no. I’ve never acted like that with you. With anybody. What’s the big deal? I thought it was funny.”

“Real funny,” she says, more caustic than I’ve ever seen her. “I work hard to make you feel worthy, Mr. Ford. I don’t need to be shot out of the sky by your knowledge of my past,” she finishes, grabbing a pillow and hugging it to her chest.

“You work to make me feel? What kind of a sentence is that?” “I do work at it,” she huffs.

“That makes me feel like you’re not being real that I’m some kind of project.”

“Now wait,” she says, backpedaling. “You’re not a project. What I meant was… Oh never mind. You’ll never understand me. How can you?”

“Why not? Besides, that’s crazy. I do understand you,” I argue.

“No,” she answers, exasperated, “you don’t. I thought I was so lucky to find you, Harry. I’ve never been able to find a man like

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