Читать книгу Four Little Problems - Carrie Weaver - Страница 2
Patrick Stevens almost choked on his coffee when he read the meeting agenda
ОглавлениеHe couldn’t possibly be that unlucky, could he?
“What’s wrong?” The perennially smiling kindergarten teacher slapped him on the back, as if that would help.
“Did you see who’s running for PTO president?”
She shrugged. “Some woman named Patterson.”
“As in, mother of Jason Patterson.” That should have said it all.
“And that’s a problem because?”
She was obviously still too wet behind the ears to understand the implications.
“Jason Patterson, the kid who threw cherry bombs in the boys’ toilets. Led his own gambling and extortion ring.”
“I’m sure he wasn’t that bad.” She flipped her hair and gave him that sparkling, you’re-just-old-and-burned-out smile.
At thirty-eight, he considered himself far from old. But she might have a point about the burned-out part. Summer break seemed very far away some days, especially when he thought about Jason Patterson. His ultimate failure.
