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I’m watching daytime TV. I hear this is what people do when they don’t have jobs.
You could always spend some time in your office downstairs… If you want to, that is.
I plan to stop in to say hello later.
Excellent. Don’t forget to come by here, too.
I won’t. xo
Her other phone rang with a call from her sister Tracy. “Hey, what’s up?”
“Thought you’d like to know my baby girl got into Princeton.”
“What? Oh my God! That’s amazing news! I’m so proud of her.”
“I am, too. When I think about where she was not that long ago… And now this.”
“She must be thrilled.”
“She is, but for all the wrong reasons, of course.”
Sam laughed. Brooke wanted to transfer from the University of Virginia to Princeton in the fall so she could be with her Secret Service boyfriend, Nate, while he served as the lead on Elijah’s detail. “Nate’s a great guy. He’s worth turning her life upside down so they can be together.”
“I hope so.”
“He’s good people. We all like him.”
“That matters to her—and to me. Are you at work?”
“Nope. I’m home.”
“Thought you caught a big new case yesterday.”
“We did. Freddie is taking the lead.”
“Why? What’s going on?”
“It was determined that I didn’t take enough time off after Spence died, and I might not be in the right frame of mind to effectively do the job.”
“Determined by whom?”
“Trulo and myself.”
“Really, Sam? You took yourself off the job? Have you been abducted by aliens or something?”
Sam laughed. “Nothing quite so dire. Just a strange feeling of numbness and detachment from the case of the moment had me wondering what might be wrong. So I’m taking a short break.”
“To do what?”
“That’s what I’m trying to figure out. So far, watching daytime TV isn’t working out so well. I got to watch former Secretary of State Ruskin talk about how Nick has a shiny exterior, but there might not be anything under the surface.”
“He’s a bitter son of a bitch. Don’t listen to him. He nearly got us into a war with Iran.”
“Nick’s team is drafting a statement to tell people that, but I hate to hear someone talk about him like that.”
“They’re talking about the person who holds an office they all wish they could occupy. They’re not necessarily talking about your husband.”
“I suppose that’s true.”
