Wellesley Wives (New England Trilogy) by Duffy Suzy

Author:Duffy, Suzy [Duffy, Suzy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House
Published: 2012-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

By mid-morning she got up the energy to take a shower. Her hair felt gross, so she stood under the steaming water for a good twenty minutes and cried again. By the time she got out, it was almost lunchtime, but there was still no sign of Jack.

Good, she thought. She really needed a little space from him. His affection was starting to suffocate her, and it wasn’t helping to get her out of the doldrums. His advice wasn’t much better. How in the heck could she go out for a walk if she’d told the office she was sick? What if she bumped into somebody? Dumb idea.

She’d managed to stay home for the fifth consecutive day, but the price was that she was housebound. That didn’t really bother her. February in Boston was a cold time. Snow blizzards were common, and there’d been a big one the night before. Lily knew her mother was due to fly out to Ireland. She wondered if the plane had made it out before the snow came down. It broke her heart that they still weren’t talking. Three times she’d called the house since the funeral, and all three times Sandra answered. That had been awkward, but they rose above it.

“I’m sorry, Lily,” she’d say each time, “your mom just isn’t ready to talk to you.”

What could she do? It felt like Sandra had moved in with her mom and taken over. There was no room for Lily. Had she lost her mother, too?

Feeling dejected, she threw on the first thing she found in her closet. It was an old jogging suit in faded gray. She didn’t care what she looked like today. Nobody was going to see her except, of course, Jack. And if she looked like hell, he would just have to put up with it. She was letting him stay rent-free, darn it. The only thing that looked more forlorn than her was the inside of the fridge. It was empty of food, which was bad because all her crying had unexpectedly given her an appetite.

She found a family-sized bag of potato chips on top of the fridge. That’ll do, she thought, and grabbed the last can of Coke from the fridge. She headed into the living room to watch television. That’s when her intercom bell rang.

The last person Lily expected to see at her door was Matt Hamilton. What in the heck was he doing here? Perhaps the company was checking up on her. But they wouldn’t do that, would they?

She checked herself in the mirror. She looked terrible. For anybody else from the office and she would have been happy to look like hell in front of them, but Matt? No. She’d stall him. That would be the smart thing to do. After all, she’d said she was probably contagious, so it would be silly to expose him to the germs.

She tried to sound sick as she hit the button on the intercom and said, “Hello.”

“Lily. Hi, it’s Matt.

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