Summer of Two Wishes by London Julia

Author:London, Julia [London, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2009-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

23

Linda Gail had had to work late again. Wyatt had been throwing work at her like the apocalypse was coming and he had to sell every last ranch in Texas before that happened. Davis said he would fix dinner for the family and Linda Gail was expecting to come home to a nice hot meal, a relatively tidy house, and a wine cooler.

She walked into the kitchen, saw the mess, and dropped her purse on the floor out of sheer exhaustion and frustration.

“Hey, hon,” Davis said, appearing from the living room, still munching on something.

“I thought you said you’d make dinner,” Linda Gail said peevishly.

Davis looked surprised. “I did!”

“Ramen noodles and Cheetos, Davis?” she said, marching to the kitchen island and swiping up the empty Cheetos bag.

“That’s what the kids wanted!”

“Just because they want junk doesn’t mean you give them junk.”

Fortunately for Davis, the phone rang just as Linda Gail was gearing up. She grabbed the phone as she stuffed the Cheetos bag into the trash. “Hello?”

“Hey, it’s Reena,” her friend chirped. “What are you doing?”

“I just got home from work and now I am picking up after Davis and the kids.” Bowls and empty ramen packages littered the counter, and spilled packets of flavoring trailed all the way to the sink. Harvey, a pound mutt, heard Linda Gail’s voice and bounded into the kitchen to shadow her, his tail banging against the cabinets and kitchen barstools as she moved around. “And then I am going to decide the best way to kill Davis. Hanging is too kind,” Linda Gail added, and tossed a biscuit to Harvey.

“So get a load of this,” Reena said, glossing over Davis’s demise. “My daughter was at Ruthie’s tonight—you know that place?”

“That old bar at the end of town?”

“Right, but they completely renovated it, and now it’s real popular among the twenty-somethings, including, unfortunately, my daughter Taylor, who is down there every night. I told her, if you put as much effort into finding a job as you do partying, you’d be mayor of Cedar Springs.”

“Reena, no offense, but I’ve got a hungry dog and a mess in the kitchen and laundry that’s been piling up for a week.”

“Oh, I know, I know! I just wanted to tell you that The Hero was there tonight and so was your boss’s wife.”

And why did Reena think she cared? Linda Gail wondered. “Oh-kay,” she said.

“Well, Hero had a little too much to drink and got into a fight, and guess who left with him?”

“I can’t guess.”

“Macy Clark. From what Taylor said, he got drunk as a cedar chopper at a rooster fight, then got mad about something and was going to take on the whole bar. But they have those guys from Lonnie’s Gym that work there and even Finn Lockhart couldn’t take them on—well, anyway, the only one who could get through to him was Macy. Taylor said it was quite the show.”

“So what happened?”

“Macy actually inserted herself in the middle of the fight and got him to look at her.

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