“Simon and Estelle could see and hear no one but each other right now, and not that very clearly. “So where do you work?” she asked Estelle, cutting her meat. Arthur’s eyes were amused as he listened to the drama being acted out on an airwave higher than the frequency of sound. As Estelle said something about issuing rent subsidy checks, flipback one side of her hair with a hand, Hannah glanced at her handsome, horrible son in his suede vest and tweed jacket and recalled his first serious girlfr...iend, when he was seventeen. Penny had braces, saddle shoes, a ponytail, and Simon’s class ring on a chain around her neck. He paraded her similarly, signaling to his mother to back off. He stayed out late with Hannah’s car night after night. Once he left a used condom on the back floor. She and Arthur grumbled, as they were supposed to. Though her side of it didn’t carry much conviction, since she remembered only too well what she was doing in that gardener’s shed with Colin at Simon’s age.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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