Acts of Malice (2007)
“She had dozed for a while and awakened feeling a lessening of that pressure inside her.They were winding over the last pass, north of Sparks, on the road to Pyramid Lake. They had left the snow and the Sierra and were driving the high desert now. Darkness lay all around, except above, where the stars were shards of shattered glass. In their long descent they had moved back into autumn; the air felt positively balmy.Wish fingered his incipient mustache. ‘‘I dunno. My mom threw him out. I didn’t ...expect it. They always got along. My daddy is a good man.’’‘‘That must have been hard for you. How old were you?’’‘‘Oh, seven I think. He went away for a few years, but then he came back. He didn’t like the rest of America, he said. But my mom wouldn’t talk to him. Then he started sending her presents, things she would never buy. He has a good job now, and he likes to share his money. That got her worried, so she started handling his finances for him. She put it in the stock market, pharmaceuticals I think.’’Nina listened to Wish ramble on about the enigmatic Sandy.‘‘I guess they fell back in love, is all I can say,’’ Wish was saying.MoreLess
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