The Favor
“Marlena Tierney’s red hair had gone gray long ago, but in the past few years she’d started dying it again.The color was garish, unnatural. Clown-red. It matched the bright lipstick she still insisted on wearing. The nail polish. She wasn’t an old woman, but time hadn’t been particularly kind to her, and she knew it.“He sends his love,” Gabe’s mother continued. “Said to tell you to make sure Andrew gets to church. You, too.”Mike probably included their dad in that, but Marlena would’ve stuck her hand in a jar of angry wasps before she mentioned Ralph’s name. Gabe leaned forward to light the cigarette she held up. She gave him a coy smile, the way she always did, but refrained from cupping his hand the way she would’ve if he’d been another man and not her son. He knew her ways, all right.“You should tell him we need to see him more often,” Gabe said, knowing it made no difference. “Andy misses him.”“He’s very busy. He’s got an active congregation, you know that.
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