What He Wants by Jessie Gussman

Author:Jessie Gussman [Gussman, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessie Gussman
Published: 2018-12-21T06:00:00+00:00

GRAM SAT AT THE KITCHEN table with an electronic tablet in front of her. Torque stopped and did a double take. His gram looked up over her glasses. “What? Ain’t used to an old lady that knows how to use the newfangled electronic gadgets?”

“Guess not.” Torque sat on the bench by the door and unlaced his boots. “I didn’t know you were into stuff like that.”

“Wasn’t.” She shrugged. “Cassidy Kimball convinced me to try it out.” Her wise blue eyes watched him shrewdly. “I wasn’t the quickest learner, but she came over a bunch until I got the hang of it. Kinda thought like she was in cahoots with Tough and Turbo taking her turn watching me, but I did learn how to work the thing well enough that I can read my Bible in big print and get the latest ladies’ Bible studies up. I order my groceries on it sometimes, too.”

Torque nodded, toeing off his second boot and setting them neatly under the bench. Turbo and Tough both had their own homes, but while he’d been gone, they’d taken turns caring for Gram. Apparently, Cassidy had helped.

A new and somewhat surprising picture of Cassidy was emerging in his head.

“Seems like since you went to prison, that girl’s been Dolly Do-Gooder. Any idea why?” Gram closed the cover on her tablet and set it aside.

Cassidy had said something about paying, hadn’t she?

“But I think she’s finally bitten off more than she can chew with those kids. Hard enough to raise kids with a husband in the picture.” Gram shook her head and reached into the cupboard to get a bowl out.

“I can heat up my own supper. Relax, Gram.” He tried to take the bowl from her.

“Sit, boy.” She pulled the bowl away from him. “I ain’t too old and decrepit to feed my grandson. Take it easy.” She scooped some vegetable soup into his bowl.

Torque’s mouth watered. Gram called it vegetable soup, but she always put a whole roast in with the veggies. Whatever spices and anything else she put in combined to make it taste amazing. It smelled amazing. They sure didn’t make stuff like this in prison.

She put the bowl in the microwave and pushed the buttons.

“In fact...” His gram turned and looked at him with that look he remembered well from childhood. She had a plan brewing behind her ice blue eyes, and he wasn’t going to like it. “In fact, I think once you eat, you and me ought to walk over to her apartment, and you can take her out for some ice cream. I owe her for all the help she gave me on that there electric thingy.” Gram nodded at her tablet.

“You owe her? So I pay her?”

“Yep.”

“With ice cream?”

“Don’t know too many girls that would turn down ice cream.”

Twenty minutes and a nice, leisurely stroll later, Torque knocked on Cassidy’s door. Gram hadn’t chatted much on the way over, and he’d had time to think. He’d told Cassidy to take it easy, get a new apartment, and a bunch of other things.

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