Second Honeymoon by James Patterson

Author:James Patterson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
ISBN: 9780316211192
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Published: 2013-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

‘Are you sure?’ Lazlo said.

Edie pushed the sugar towards him across the café table.

‘Oh yes’.

‘But it would be your son’s room—’ ‘Or my daughter’s. We’ve had lots of actors there, over the last few years, on and off—’

‘Really’

‘Oh yes’.

‘What about,’ Lazlo said, taking two packets of white sugar, ‘your husband?’

‘He’s called Russell’.

‘I know,’ Lazlo said. ‘I just felt a bit shy’.

‘Shy?’

‘I don’t know my own father very well’. ‘Russell isn’t at all alarming. Russell is very used to actor lodgers’.

‘Have you told him?’

‘What?’

‘That,’ Lazlo said, ‘you were going to offer a room to me’.

Edie watched him tear the sugar packets across and pour the contents into the cushion of milky foam on the top of his coffee.

‘Lazlo dear, I don’t need to ask him’.

‘I said tell—’

‘I don’t need to tell him either. He likes having the house full. He likes having it used’. Lazlo began to stir his coffee.

‘I must say, it would be wonderful. It would make me feel—’ He stopped, and then he said, ‘Different’.

‘Good’.

He looked at her and then he looked away.

‘I would try – not to be a nuisance’.

‘If you were,’ Edie said, ‘I probably wouldn’t notice. My children, with the possible exception of Matthew, are usually a nuisance. If you don’t have any nuisance in your life, I’ve discovered, something dies in you. It all gets very bland and boring’. She leaned across the table. ‘When I was a child, I shared a bedroom with my sister, Vivien, and we fought all the time because she was very tidy and I was very messy, extra messy, probably, to annoy her, and when our mother said we could have separate rooms, I was miserable. There was no point in being messy on my own’. She looked across at Lazlo and smiled at him. ‘There still isn’t’.

He said, ‘Is that the sister that Rosa lives with?’

‘Yes’.

‘Are you still fighting?’ ‘Certainly,’ Edie said.

‘I never fight with my sister. I wouldn’t risk it. You have to have enough family to take that kind of risk’.

‘Goodness,’ Edie said, ‘what a dramatic view of family. You sound like a Russian novel. If that’s what you’re expecting, you’ll find us very dull’.

‘I don’t think so’.

She reached across the table and grasped his wrist. ‘We’ll like having you. Really’.

He shook his head and gave her a quick glance, and in the course of it, she saw he had tears in his eyes.

‘Heavens, Lazlo,’ Edie said, laughing. ‘Heavens, it’s only a room’.

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