Thursday's Child by Clare Revell

Author:Clare Revell [Revell, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christian Fiction
ISBN: 9781611162448
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
Published: 2013-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

12

The next week passed quickly. Niamh easily slipped back into the routine of working. It really wasn’t that different from what she remembered, and her initial qualms faded as bits and pieces of her job came back to her. Her previous case notes still puzzled her at their abruptness and outright meanness. For a Christian, she sure hadn’t been acting like one. She spent time each day praying over the files, asking for forgiveness for her attitude. At least she hadn’t wrongly prosecuted anyone. She had gone through every case she’d prosecuted to check.

Every evening, when Jared wasn’t on nights, she spent with him. He’d come over and they’d watch TV or just sit and chat about their respective days. But they’d finish every evening in Bible study and prayer. Something he said had been missing for a while—even before Dayna died. They’d spoken of her several times. Jared had shared lots of memories with her and even borrowed all the photos of her he could in order to get copies made of them.

They’d chosen one of the three of them sitting under the Christmas tree, taken two days before Dayna died and had it enlarged. It now hung in pride of place on the wall in the lounge. Something they both decided was a good thing.

The contents of Niamh’s wardrobe had been as big a shock as her journals. Full of more suits and shoes than she would ever really need and not cheap ones either. She looked at them critically and finally decided on just one suit for work. Everything else she folded and placed in five black sacks. That left her with two skirts, two pairs of jeans, the tracksuit trousers that fitted over the cast and a week’s worth of shirts, nightwear and lingerie. More than enough.

Next she tackled the shoes. She kept a pair for work, a pair for best, sneakers, and sandals. The rest went in the bags.

When the driver arrived to pick her up for work, she smiled. “Hi, I have a favor to ask.”

“Sure, Mrs. Harkin.”

“I’ve got some stuff bagged up to go to the charity shop. Could we drop it off on the way? The bags are on the landing if you don’t mind bringing them downstairs for me.”

“Of course.”

“Thank you. I’ll let Mr. Reynolds know I’ll be in a little later.”

It took him several trips to load the car, but he did it without complaint. “Which charity shop did you want to go to?”

Niamh looked blankly at him. “There’s more than one?”

He smiled. “There are five in the precinct.”

“OK. Umm, pick one. I don’t have a preference.”

“Sure.”

Once they got there, Niamh wandered around while the driver unloaded all the bags. She found a couple of skirts she immediately fell in love with and an ornament consisting of three owls. Two were the right way up, the third hanging upside down with ‘It’s one of those days’ written along the bottom of it. She paid for them and headed into work.

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