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He chuckled.
“What?”
“Nothing. Well… not nothing. Gail and Brandon.”
“What about them?”
“Just before the auction di
“Because?”
“That’s the beauty of it. That’s why I can laugh about it. I have no idea. If I had to guess, it was that he missed some appointment with her. She has this real thing about being stood up. But it could have been him taking the wrong car, or forgetting to fill the ice trays or not cleaning hair out of the shower drain. But what got me was how sweet it was not to be on the receiving end of it, how I wouldn’t have traded with him for anything.”
She reached down for Beatrice as well, and their hands touched. Or was that what she’d meant to happen? he wondered.
About Ridley Pearson
Ridley Pearson is a New York Times bestselling author. He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in detective fiction at Oxford. He lives in Hailey, Idaho.