Operation Dimwit by Inman Majors

Author:Inman Majors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2020-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

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After the eventful weekend, Penelope was relieved to pull into the parking lot Monday morning and find that she’d beaten Missy to work. This was usually the case, but after Sunday’s fresh round of skunk texts and Dimwit nonsense, all bets were off. Missy could have built a lookout fort on the roof. Or hidden all weekend in the supply closet wearing infrared glasses. You couldn’t put anything past her when she got like this.

She got out of the car, thinking that she should probably respond to Bald Brad at some point. Dating was so complicated now with all the instantaneous ways to contact people. It made stalling a lot harder to do. One thing that was no longer complicated was the nature of her relationship with Fitzwilliam. Though never explicitly stated, it was clear they were to be friends and no more. They’d parted—amid much good cheer and Algernon twirled around her legs—with the understanding that she was now to be a regular guest at Pemberley. No more was said about future works of art. Penelope would just play that as it came, if it came at all. Regardless, it felt good to have made a new friend and one who was so different from others in her social circle. She could hardly wait to see Algernon in his mask—or was it masque?—and cape come Mardi Gras. He would be a furry little mischief maker is what he’d be.

She unlocked the office door, surmising that most dating scenarios from here forward would end with a cordial parting of ways. So why bother? Why not just delete the Bald Brad text and stop thinking

about it?

Hope, that’s why. She could live without a steady man in her life, but if the right one came along, one who Theo liked, that would be okay by her. Right now, she’d just live in the present and concentrate on the things she could control, like whether to surprise Theo with a PlinkyMo mural in his room when get he got back from camp. She thought it important that the new place be as inviting as possible, stuck way out in the country as they were with no other kids nearby to play with.

Speaking of her new place—specifically its turquoise walls—her intuition had never felt keener. In fact, right now it was telling her that some surprise waited inside the door she was presently unlocking.

There was. Turquoise was working its magic already, though she wondered if this was a kind of black magic. On her desk were a walkie-talkie, a pair of binoculars, and a note from Missy.

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