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Chapter 26
Two weeks later . . .
Jessica was in her home studio working on the paintings Eric James had commissioned for his restaurants. Debbie was at school. Charles was at work. The last two weeks with Charles had been a dream. Of course, they were discrete when they went out to dinner because they didn’t want rumors of a romance to appear in the society pages. Jessica didn’t want Debbie to find out her mother was dating a man in the newspapers, and she surely didn’t want one of the kids at her school asking her about it.
Charles had sent his limousine for her for a romantic dinner at his townhouse for Valentine’s Day. He had given her a ruby necklace and then carried her upstairs to his lavish bedroom. They had made love all night.
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Calvin ordered a sandwich from the café on the second floor and worked through lunch. The stock prices were volatile today, and he didn’t want to take his eye off the screen until the market closed. His office door opened. It was his mother. She closed the door behind her as she greeted him. “Hey, Mom,” he said and looked back at the computer screen. “What are you doing here?” “I was in town and thought I’d stop in. I went by Charles’s office, but his secretary said he was in a meeting and wasn’t due back for another hour. He’s doing a great job, isn’t he?” she said with a know-it-all tone.
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One week later . . . Jessica lay naked on her back giggling as Charles ate a small vine of grapes covering her nether region. She had gotten a full bikini wax three days before. When Charles saw it, he had gotten the idea of having a snack down there. Charles’s bedroom was plush. He had a round bed with white sheets that were softer than a baby’s bottom. The comforter was fluffy and purple. There was a mirror over the bed. The walls were lilac. A feminine color for a man, but Charles’s decorator had told him it was a color that would make him feel calm at night. The bedroom furniture was large, solid wood that was painted white. He had an adjoining bathroom that had a Jacuzzi tub, dual sinks, and a large, walk-in shower with raining shower heads that sprayed their entire bodies. The towels had his last i
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Charles had just gotten out of the shower. He toweled off and walked to his bedroom. He lowered his naked form between the sheets of his bed. He could still smell Jessica’s honey and spice perfume on the linen. He wished she was there to lie beside him. He reminded himself to be patient. She would come around soon. Charles picked up his phone to check the stock prices. He had three missed calls. Two were from Calvin and one was from Mason. He pressed the button for his voicemail “Today, one ten p.m.,” the automated voice said. “Charles, it’s Calvin. We’ve had an emergency at the Madison location. Six mad men busted through the doors and started shooting everything
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It was five o’clock, and Debbie was still in surgery. No one on the medical staff could tell her anything — or wouldn’t. Jessica didn’t know which. She had called her parents when she had arrived at the hospital. Her mother sat beside her. Her father was on the other side. Jessica had called the detective who left her a message. She had said that she was in the middle of something, but she and her partner would come to the hospital to speak to her personally along with the other parents. She looked up at the other worried parents in the OR waiting room. She wondered if she had the same concern, anguish, and frustration on her face. Claire and Yvonne Michelson walked into the
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Thanks to Charles’s blood donation, Debbie survived the night. Drake, Jessica, and her parents stayed at the hospital. They slept on and off in the waiting room in the ICU. They were allowed to see Debbie two at a time and for only ten minutes at a time. Debbie had been unconscious most of the night. She had opened her eyes once when Jessica and Drake were in the room, but her eyes fluttered closed within five seconds. The staff said the doctor wanted Debbie sedated for the night so she could rest and to make sure she didn’t make any sudden movements that would tear her stitches. Charles had been gracious enough to spend the night at the hospital just in case Debbie needed more blood. Plus, the hospital staff wanted him to stay close by because they had slowly drawn two pints from him. Of course, it wasn’t all at once, but two
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Charles had been at the townhouse for two hours drinking wine out of bottles. He had excused Xavier for the evening. He wasn’t going anywhere. What for? He wasn’t needed or wanted by anybody. Someone rang the doorbell. Charles drunkenly made his way to the door. Whoever it was rang the doorbell again, and then started banging on the door. Charles stopped in the foyer. “I don’t want to talk to you, Jessica! Go away!” he slurred loudly. “It’s Calvin, you fool. Open the door!”&n
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It was five thirty, and Drake and Jessica were sitting at Debbie’s bedside. Debbie had just finished picking at her dinner.“Baby, you should eat some more. You need to keep up your strength,” Jessica mumbled.“Oh, Ma, that’s not food. It’s a science experiment, and lunch wasn’t that much better,” Debbie said with a deep frown. “Daddy, can’t you get me a cheeseburger with mayo?”“Sweetheart, the doctor doesn’t want you to eat anything greasy for a while,” Drake said solemnly.“You two seem down about something. I thought the doctor said that I was going to be okay,” Debbie said.“You are, honey,” Jessica said quickly. “It’s just . . . we have something to tell you, and we don’t know how to . . . tell you.”Debbie looked at her and then she looked at Drake.“You know I love you, don’t you, Debb
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