Sins of the Mother by B K Johnson

Author:B K Johnson [Johnson, B K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781712218044
Published: 2019-11-30T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

Rod and Tommy had to wait quite a while for a table at Tommy’s Joint. It was one of the landmarks in San Francisco, and very popular well before Tommy was born. They opted to wait until one of the little tables cleared before they ordered their food. Rod was very solicitous of Tommy’s desire to limit her time sitting at bars, whether or not the temptation to drink alcohol reared its ugly head. In the interim they chatted amiably about their respective weeks, and looked at the appetizing array of roasted meats scenting the entire restaurant with delectable smells.

Tommy hadn’t realized how hungry she was, and while Rod went to claim a table for them, she ordered the house special for both of them. When she got to the register, Rod waved her over to the table and paid for their slabs of roast beef with garlic mashed potatoes and gravy and salads. They already had their root beers, and Tommy thought to herself that the last time she went out for a nice dinner it was for prime rib. And that was recently. Thank goodness she worked out every day at the gym or running up and down the hills of San Francisco!

While they ate they surreptitiously eyed each other. Tommy noticed Rod’s broad chest swelling with every breath, and Rod desperately tried not to stare at Tommy’s breasts peeking up over her low-necked sweater. Rod asked her if she would like to go to Hawaii with him the following week, as he was opening up another surf shop in the North Shore of Oahu. She really wished she could go, especially since she’d gone with Rod before to his family’s home in prestigious Black Point on Oahu. She certainly enjoyed the luxurious residence, as well as Rod’s attention. So much for her antipathy of the rich and the amenities they could afford.

Instead, she politely demurred. “I have to wrap up my part in the investigation of Samantha’s murder, she explained. I also promised my brother Eej that I’d be in touch with him on a daily basis until our father is settled in the final care facility.”

“I’m so sorry you are having to go through this experience,” Rod commiserated. “ I don’t think I would be able to watch my parents’ demise. And you already had to face your mother’s death so many years ago. I don’t know how you have the strength to get through all of this.”

Tommy reached out to caress Rod’s long, thick fingers with her slim, delicate ones, and breathed deeply/ “After having lost my mother at such an early age, and then losing my own daughter before I turned 26, numbed me to the vagaries of life and death and the process in between,” Tommy explained. “I wasn’t strong. I drank to deaden the pain. Self-medication,” she laughed ruefully. She truly wished she’d had the security that Rod had known, a loving family well enough off to be shielded from much of the frustration and misery known by the middle and lower classes.

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