The Butcher's Daughter by Staub Wendy Corsi
Author:Staub, Wendy Corsi [Staub, Wendy Corsi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, thriller, Suspense, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780062742094
Amazon: 0062742094
Goodreads: 48613288
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2020-08-25T07:00:00+00:00
Weary after a milk delivery shift that had begun in the wee hours and then all the excitement over at Travisâs place this afternoon, Rodney Lee pulls up in front of the low stone block house he shares with his mother.
Sheâs not home. On Fridays, she goes from her waitress job at the luncheonette to the bartending job sheâd started a few weeks ago. This one is at a joint where Rodney Lee always liked to shoot pool with his buddies. Now that sheâs behind the bar, he stays away, even on nights when sheâs not working. No man wants to see, or even hear about, his mother falling all over the patrons, and none are off-limits when Ruth Ann Midget starts sampling as much as sheâs pouring. Heâs gotten into more than his share of skirmishes with guys his own age who think itâs funny to tell him theyâd messed around with his old lady.
Before he throws the first punch, he always says, âTake it back, or Iâll kill you.â
Some do, right away. Others hold out a little longer.
In the end, they all take it back. Even when itâs the truth.
He parks the Impala at the curb and goes to the mailbox. A letter from Travis isnât the only thing heâs looking for, but the other evaporates from his thoughts the moment he sees an envelope with the familiar red-and-blue-ticked border right there on top of the stack.
He opens the door, and his motherâs cat pushes out past him. It brushes against his legs, and he kicks it.
âWhole damned house smells like your piss,â he calls after it as it scampers into the weeds and disappears over the chain-link fence.
He slams the door and dumps everything but the letter onto the pile of unopened mail on the hall table. The heap topples, scattering envelopesâmostly overdue bills and collection noticesâall over the floor. No draft notice today.
But itâs coming. The first week in March, heâd been summoned for his armed forces physical. Stripped down and funneled along with hundreds, maybe thousands of fellow underwear-clad healthy specimens, he wondered how many would be dead in a yearâs time.
Heâd passed the physical examination. And then he passed the mental aptitude tests that had tripped up his pal Buddy when heâd attempted to enlist right out of high school.
âI thought they were looking for soldiers, not geniuses,â heâd complained after being deemed mentally unfit for the army. But Buddy has a second chance, now that the Pentagon lowered the recruitment standards. He reports to basic training in a couple of weeks.
Rodney Leeâs Statement of Acceptability arrived in the mail before the month was out. Itâs just a matter of time before heâs called up as an infantryman. Heâll do his patriotic duty, just like Travis.
âI wouldnât say heâs fighting for our country,â Melody Hunter had the nerve to tell Rodney Lee the night heâd stopped to offer her a ride. Then sheâd gone on to criticize President Johnson.
Until then, Rodney Lee hadnât believed
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