You Are the Love of My Life by Susan Richards Shreve

Author:Susan Richards Shreve [Shreve, Susan Richards]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780393084306
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

IN HER STUDIO, Lucy leaned over a drawing of Vermillion, trying for just the amount of green to make the sloth surprising, a sloth to take seriously.

“Maybe you could tell me a story.” Felix climbed on a stool, watching Lucy.

“Maybe.”

She was listening for Maggie just in case she decided to cross the street to the Mallorys’ house, hop up the steps to the front porch, walk through the front door, join their family in the kitchen.

“Do you think Maggie will run away? She told me yesterday she might.”

“I don’t think she will.”

“How do you know?”

“I just know,” Lucy said.

“Maggie told me you don’t know everything.”

“That’s true,” Lucy said.

She was listening as Maggie came up the steps to the studio, her mop of red curls surfacing at the top of the stairs.

“I was at the hospital in case you were wondering,” Maggie said.

“I wasn’t actually wondering,” Lucy said. “I knew.”

“You wouldn’t have allowed me to go if I’d asked.”

Lucy didn’t look up from her work, careful to choose her words.

“Right?” Maggie asked.

She was leaning against the wall, her arms folded across her chest.

“How come you don’t ask about August and how he is?”

Lucy put her brush in the green paint, swirled it around and began to paint.

“August is in a coma. Possibly, he’ll die. That’s what Zee says.”

Something burned in Lucy’s stomach.

“Don’t you want to see him?” Maggie asked.

Lucy hung the green-splattered sloth to dry on a line over the table with clothespins, turned off the overhead light, and picked Felix up.

“I saw him this morning.”

“You’re lying,” Maggie said. “Where did you see him?”

“At the hospital.”

“How come you didn’t tell me?”

“I am telling you now.”

“I don’t believe you,” Maggie said, going into her bedroom, closing the door halfway.

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