Title:Third Degree
Author(s): Maggie Barbieri
Publisher(s): Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Year: 2010
Format: EPUB
Language: English
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Well, when you put it that way, how could I say no? I thought. I immediately got a pain in my stomach. “I have to go.” Before I had a chance to say good-bye, he had hung up. I looked at Trixie who was enthralled by the conversation, or so it seemed. “That went well,” I said to her. She gave me an exasperated sigh and threw her head to the ground. “Not you, too?” I asked. “Are you all turning against me?” She looked up at me from her spot on the floor and seemed to pass some kind of judgment. I stared back at her. “I’m going to school. Don’t eat any shoes.”
It was hot and sticky outside and I was glad that I had chosen not to wear panty hose under my skirt, a violation akin to heresy at St. Thomas. I’m sure that the nuns who wore long habits had on thick black tights, even in summer. On their heads, they wore bonnets which tied under their chins. Me showing up for school in a knee-grazing skirt with bare legs? A scandal at best. Coupled with the fact that I was wearing a sleeveless top, chances were that I would be fired by day’s end if I didn’t at least put a cardigan over my shoulders.
My head was pounding from a combination of one too many martinis the night before and the oppressive heat. I should have gone to Beans, Beans for an iced coffee because I was single-handedly keeping the place in business, but I was running out of steam and couldn’t face Greg and his empty store. My choices were limited as to where to get the caffeine I so desperately needed. I found myself at Tony’s, knowing that he could hook me up before I headed to school.
Tony was standing behind the counter, wiping his hands on his long white apron. The jangling of the bells over the door announced my arrival. “I was worried about you!” he said when he saw me. “But you look as beautiful as ever. You have a glow about you. You must be fine.” He leaned over the counter and tried to grab hold of my hand. “You are better?”
“I’m better, Tony. Thanks,” I said, peering around him to see if the elusive yet angry Lucia was anywhere to be seen. “Can I get an iced coffee, please?”
He responded the same way he always did when I asked for something. “For you? Anything.” He turned and started to prepare my coffee. “Milk and sugar?”
“Black,” I said, and looked around the store, deciding to make good use of my time while I was waiting. “Hey, Tony? When was the last time Carter Wilmott was in?”
He stopped mid-pour and turned back around. He put a finger to his lips. “Do not say his name,” he whispered. “The thought of him makes Lucia very upset.”
“I’m sure it does,” I said. “Did he come here often?” I thought about how despite the fact that he wrote horrible stuff about Greg and Beans, Beans, he continued to patronize the store. I didn’t think Tony and Lucia were “forgiving souls” like Greg had proclaimed to be, but you never know.
“I spit on the ground he walked on,” Tony said, and spat on the deli floor to illustrate. “But Lucia? Lucia would have killed him if he had entered the store.”
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