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“He asked about you, Marlowe. He wanted to know when that bullshit lawsuit was going to be over and you could come back to work here in West Virginia.”
“Did you explain to him that even if I win, I’m not going to work at that school again?” I picked up the dress off my bed and pulled it over my head. Thank God it had a side zipper.
“I tried to tell him that. Then he wanted to know what the point was.”
“Did he get it? Did he understand I didn’t want that bad mark on my resume anymore?”
“Yeah, that, he understood.”
Chaos nosed her way into my bedroom and sat down to give me the onceover. I went to the dresser and pulled on some bangles and a couple of rings, then I pushed in some big hoop silver earrings. I fluffed my hair, then went to the bathroom and bent over. Chaos was still following me, but when she saw me pick up the can of hairspray, she ran out of the bathroom so fast, I heard her skid on the hardware floor of the bedroom. Laughing, I sprayed my hair.
“Can you hear me?” Sue shouted.
“Now I can. I was putting on hairspray.”
“Are you in the daisy dress?”
“Yep.”
“What shoes?”
“Red wedges with the ankle straps.”
“Nice. Call me when you get home.”
“Yes, Mom.” I laughed. So did Sue. Then she hung up.
Chaos came into my bedroom again, sniffing the air.
“It’s all clear,” I assured her.
She let out a low woof.
“Are you going to be a good girl while I’m gone?”
Woof.
“You have your doggy door that Beau let me have built. So, you’re good to go. Literally,” I grinned. I picked up my phone off the bed and remembered the threatening phone call. It was the third one I’d received. It was time for me to let my attorney know about it, but I hated to sound like a wuss. Maybe I could just wait a little bit more. After all, they were just phone calls.
Woof.
Woof.
Woof.
Chaos always alerted me before the knock on the door or the bell would ring. I wondered how she would take Kai. She was a good judge of character. As a matter of fact, I wished that I had had her before I’d met Denny. The couple of times we’d run into him in Danville, after I had got her, she’d tried really hard to get at him. She hadn’t liked him at all.
“Be a good girl,” I whispered as I stroked her neck. Then I whispered in her ear. “But not too good. Let me know if he’s a good guy or not.”
I opened the door and all the breath left my body. Kai was clean-shaven and his curls were under control. He was smiling. I worried that my mouth was hanging open at the beauty of Kai.
“Hi, Marlowe. Are you going to introduce me?”
I looked down and saw Chaos playing peek-a-boo behind my skirt.
Really?
“Shy?” Kai asked.
