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“She has an appointment with Dr. Jensen tomorrow for her finger.”
“So she’ll be close by,” Hudson said. “Do you think she’ll stop in to see you?”
“Probably not,” he said. “I’ll check in with her to see how it went. We’ve got another date set up for Friday when I get out of work but not sure what we are doing yet.”
“It’s going to rain,” Hudson said.
“Only you would know that,” he said. Carson never bothered to look at the weather much until he got ready to leave in the morning.
“I only know because Delaney was going to go to Boston to shop. She took the day off and isn’t happy about riding the ferry in the rain.”
“Have her take the chopper over,” he said, laughing. “Open up your wallet.”
“That’s my cue to get into work.”
The two of them got out of his car. “I’m serious,” he said. “Or is Delaney afraid of flying?”
“She’s not. She’s flown before. I suggested the chopper and she told me I was nuts. I know not to push my wife. If she wants to go badly enough, she’ll do it. I think the storms aren’t coming in until later, so it’s the bigger issue of coming back during a storm rather than leaving on one.”
“She’ll go,” he said. “Then come back early.”
“I told her to go and stay at Mom and Dad’s house if she doesn’t want to come back. That’s an option. They are in Boston right now. Mom would love it and love to go shopping with Delaney.”
“Good compromise,” he said.
He knew Delaney didn’t have the best relationship with her mother. Or her family at all. But Delaney had opened up and gotten close with his mother and sister.
They got into the hospital and Hudson went toward the ER and Carson to the radiology department.
Hudson turned and shouted, “I’m sure I’ll be talking to you today.”
“Always,” he said. There was bound to be someone in the ER that needed some type of imaging done. But he had a lot scheduled to do anyway.
An hour later, his phone was buzzing while he was in his office. He looked down and saw the text coming in from Laine.
He picked it up and saw a painting of French fries covered in ketchup with a bite of burger left. Just a small one. He found it hilarious since she said she didn’t do pop or abstract art, but he knew right away that was what she was trying to accomplish here.
He was going to text back but figured he’d call instead and put it on speakerphone. His door was shut and it was dark in his office the way he liked it.
“Is that ketchup with a side of fries and the last bite of a burger?” he asked when she picked up the phone.
“It is,” she said. “So, change of topic, kind of but it ties together. I give lessons to Josie. Avery’s daughter.”
He knew about that situation. The whole family had heard how Avery ended up being Josie’s guardian and was raising the little girl as her daughter. It was hard not to when his niece Adele was best friends with Josie and they spent a lot of time together.
“I do,” he said. “Ava has said she’s very talented.”
“She’s leaps and bounds ahead of me at her age,” she said.
“Then she’s going to be a superstar,” he said.
“I believe it. I worry I’m not doing her justice but for now I’m not judging her and pushing her boundaries to try new things. She has a love of realism, but I told her she won’t know what other talents she has if she doesn’t try.”
He wasn’t surprised that Laine’s entire life was about trying the uncomfortable. Broadening her knowledge and getting others to do it too.
“Is she doing abstract now?” he asked.
“That is what she’s working on. She asked me last night if I could paint something too. I just threw this together. I thought you’d get a kick out of it. Nothing like a vegan-loving artist.”
