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CHAPTER FIVE

THE MIDDLE OF JULY arrived at last. Allyson was due any minute to spend the last six weeks of the summer with her mother.

Shelley had worked out the perfect plan for their talk. She wasn’t showing much yet, but she didn’t want to wait until her daughter noticed something. After Allyson had spent the afternoon in the pool, after they’d had a good dinner, they would sit down together and Shelley would explain the facts of life as they now stood.

In the meantime, she paced the house, straightening, dusting, rearranging knickknacks. She stood at the big front window for long minutes, as if staring at the street outside could make Dex’s car, with Allyson inside, appear. Her stomach tightened like a screw and she tried to eat, but only felt worse. She changed clothes twice, hoping to look as slim as possible.