Donut Shop Mystery 25 - Devil's Food Defense
“It was Jake.
I slid the last tray of donuts into the display case and took the call.
“Hey, Jake. How are Sarah and the kids?”
“Not great,” he said, and I could hear the exhaustion in his voice. “My sister has gotten herself tangled up with yet another bad boy, and I’m trying to break her free.”
Sarah had a habit of going for the worst possible men she could find, something that had a negative impact on her kids. It was one of the reasons Jake had paid so much more attention to t...hem than he had his other nieces and nephews.
“Why does she keep doing that to herself?” I’d never understood the impulse to date guys who were trouble, if you excluded Tommy Thorndike in the sixth grade. Then again, Tommy and I had dated again a little in high school, and if anyone in our class had been destined for trouble, it had been Tommy. I’d known in my heart that I couldn’t change him, but I quickly saw the folly in even trying.MoreLess
I slid the last tray of donuts into the display case and took the call.
“Hey, Jake. How are Sarah and the kids?”
“Not great,” he said, and I could hear the exhaustion in his voice. “My sister has gotten herself tangled up with yet another bad boy, and I’m trying to break her free.”
Sarah had a habit of going for the worst possible men she could find, something that had a negative impact on her kids. It was one of the reasons Jake had paid so much more attention to t...hem than he had his other nieces and nephews.
“Why does she keep doing that to herself?” I’d never understood the impulse to date guys who were trouble, if you excluded Tommy Thorndike in the sixth grade. Then again, Tommy and I had dated again a little in high school, and if anyone in our class had been destined for trouble, it had been Tommy. I’d known in my heart that I couldn’t change him, but I quickly saw the folly in even trying.MoreLess
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