Happy Mother's Day!
“An impatient grimace furrowing the smooth olive-toned skin of his high, intelligent forehead, he studiously ignored it. However, the interruption did cause his attention to briefly stray to the empty passenger seat where another phone lay, this one switched off.
It was about the only thing that had survived his blitz, when he had gone through the home they had briefly shared and removed every item that had even remotely reminded him of his broken marriage and his wife. Or so he had thought.
If his diligent housekeeper hadn’t been so thorough in her war against dust he would have remained ignorant of the phone’s existence, and, more importantly, ignorant of its explosive contents.
Which was presumably just what his wife had intended.
What else was he meant to think?
Francesco’s jaw clenched as he fought to contain the sense of molten outrage that threatened to overwhelm him every time he thought of the situation he now faced. In fact, he had thought of little else for the past four day...s and was now digging pretty deep into his reserves of self-restraint!MoreLess
It was about the only thing that had survived his blitz, when he had gone through the home they had briefly shared and removed every item that had even remotely reminded him of his broken marriage and his wife. Or so he had thought.
If his diligent housekeeper hadn’t been so thorough in her war against dust he would have remained ignorant of the phone’s existence, and, more importantly, ignorant of its explosive contents.
Which was presumably just what his wife had intended.
What else was he meant to think?
Francesco’s jaw clenched as he fought to contain the sense of molten outrage that threatened to overwhelm him every time he thought of the situation he now faced. In fact, he had thought of little else for the past four day...s and was now digging pretty deep into his reserves of self-restraint!MoreLess
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