By Barbara Delinsky
Every thing Claire Raphael has she's earned. On her personal. The not easy means. She outfitted her part-time enterprise up from not anything and made it winning via her mind's eye, creativity, and tough paintings. She has nice teenagers and Dennis, a husband she loves thoroughly. Then, one night, while Claire returns from a tricky work trip, Dennis arms her divorce papers in addition to a court docket order to vacate their condominium. Claire is devastated. She had no inspiration her marriage used to be close to catastrophe, that Dennis have been making plans this ambush for weeks, if now not months, or that her stressful yet satisfied existence used to be approximately to come back crashing down round her. Claire does not recognize the place to show or whom to belief. yet in a couple of brief weeks she learns what such a lot of ladies have needed to discover—that while the going will get tricky, a woman's as tricky as she should be.
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Jack took the larger bag. " he asked. Having lived out of these two bags for the past thirteen days, I could manage for another three. Besides, I couldn't have picked out and packed other clothes if my life had depended on it. I didn't look at Dennis, didn't speak to Dennis, didn't trust myself not to cry or beg or snarl. Concentrating solely on reaching the car without falling apart, I led Jack through the kitchen and the mudroom to the garage. The rental car was the burgundy color that I liked and Dennis hated.
I wanted to answer honestly, but didn't know how I could. I hated Dennis for making me lie. "It was too late. " I had never been to Santa Fe in my life--but then, neither had Johnny. "Uh, nice," I supposed. "Warm. Dry. " "Yeah. There's a field trip to Boston to see the one-if-by-sea church. Someone has to sign my permission slip. " "I need exact change. " "Grandma does. She'll give it to you. I'll ask as soon as we get done. " "No. We went to Bertucci's. Are you okay? " Tears had a way of doing that.
I dialed it. Lloyd Usher answered with a grunt that said he was busy. Hurriedly, I gave him my name, that of his sister-in-law, and the bare bones of my situation. I should have known he wasn't the man for me when he offered to see me the following afternoon at two, but his was the only name I had, and I was desperate. So I pleaded. I said it was an emergency, that I had concerns about my children that couldn't wait until the next day. He complained that everyone had concerns that couldn't wait, and that he had to leave the office by seven-thirty.