Public Secrets Part 129
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something that had always seemed years off. Retirement.
It was a good life, Lou thought, drawing in scents of sausage and roses.
On impulse, he spun his wife around and planted a long hard kiss on her
mouth.
"The kid's going to be busy for at least an hour," he murmured as he
cupped her b.r.e.a.s.t.s. "Let's go upstairs."
Marge tilted her head back, then grinned.
Michael turned the mower, enjoying the physical release and the light
sweat that was working over his skin. Not that he liked losing the bet,
he thought. He hated to lose anything.
But he missed a lawn, the look of it, the smell of it. His apartment
suited him with its postage-stamp pool and noisy neighbors. But the
suburbs, he mused, with their big, leafy trees and tidy yards, their
backyard barbecues and station wagons, were home. You always felt like
a kid again there. Sat.u.r.day-morning bike rides. Ricky Jones down the
street trying out his skateboard. Pretty girls walking by in thin
cotton dresses while you traded baseball cards on the curb and pretended
not to notice.
The old neighborhood hadn't changed much since his youth. It was still
a place where paperboys rode bikes on delivery and tossed today's news
into bushes. Neighbors still competed with each other over the best
lawn, the best garden. They borrowed tools and forgot to return them.
Being there gave him a sense of continuity. Something he hadn't known
he wanted until he'd moved away from it.
A movement caught his eye, and he glanced up in time to see the shade of
his parents' bedroom window go down. He stopped, openmouthed, the grip
of the mower vibrating under his hands. He might not have had his gold
s.h.i.+eld, but it didn't take a detective to figure out what was going on
behind the shade. At nine o'clock in the morning. He continued to stare
a moment, unsure if he should be amused, embarra.s.sed, or delighted. He
decided it was best not to think about it at all. There was something
spooky about imagining your parents having s.e.x.
He steered the mower one-handed, unb.u.t.toning his s.h.i.+rt as he went.
Christmas lights might have been strung along the caves of the houses,
but it would be eighty degrees before noon. Michael sent a casual wave
to Mrs. Baxter who had come out to weed her gladiolas. She merely
frowned at him, so he went back to singing along with the
Bruce Springsteen number that played through his headphone. He'd sent a
long fly ball through Mrs. Baxter's picture window more than ten years
before, and she had yet to forgive him.
He had the backyard trimmed, and half of the front when he began to
wonder why his father had never invested in a riding mower. A trim
Mercedes convertible pulled up at the curb. Michael wouldn't have given
it more than a glance, except there was a blonde behind the wheel. He
had a weakness for blondes. She merely sat, dark gla.s.ses hiding her
eyes, as a minute stretched into five.
At length she slowly got out of the car. She was as trim and sleek as
the Mercedes, long, elegant legs beneath a thin cotton skirt. He
noticed her hands as well, delicate, tea-serving hands that clutched
tight on a gray leather purse.
Public Secrets Part 129
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