Eggsecutive Orders
Eggsecutive Orders
“MOM ASKED WHEN I RETURNED to my apartment. She must have read the expression on my face, because when she turned away from the sink, her smile withered. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing.” That didn’t appease her, and I knew it wouldn’t. So I came up with a white lie. “With this investigation, Tom is under a lot of stress. He and I can only meet if it’s official business.”
“The impression of impropriety?”
I nodded. “Something like that.”
The way Mom studied my face I could tell she wasn’t buying my stor...y. Of course she wasn’t. She knew me too well. “And I hate being banished from the White House,” I said, dropping into one of my kitchen chairs. “The whole point of you coming out here was so that I could show you around the president’s mansion. Now I’m not even allowed in myself.”
She made reassuring noises, the kind she always made when I was disappointed or frustrated and there was nothing we could do about it.
I smiled across the table. “I bet you wish you had stayed home.”MoreLess
“Nothing.” That didn’t appease her, and I knew it wouldn’t. So I came up with a white lie. “With this investigation, Tom is under a lot of stress. He and I can only meet if it’s official business.”
“The impression of impropriety?”
I nodded. “Something like that.”
The way Mom studied my face I could tell she wasn’t buying my stor...y. Of course she wasn’t. She knew me too well. “And I hate being banished from the White House,” I said, dropping into one of my kitchen chairs. “The whole point of you coming out here was so that I could show you around the president’s mansion. Now I’m not even allowed in myself.”
She made reassuring noises, the kind she always made when I was disappointed or frustrated and there was nothing we could do about it.
I smiled across the table. “I bet you wish you had stayed home.”MoreLess
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