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“And what?” Bobbi said quietly “You’ll treat Dad to an afternoon at The Grill, where you’ll drink yourself into oblivion or snort soets in the way Once Matt Hawkins walks through the door and all rational thought flies out of your pretty little head because so attention to you?”
“You’re such a bitch,” Betty ground out
Bobbi heard her grandfather sigh and took a et into it with her sister “At least I’m an honest bitch”
She kissed Herschel on the cheek and whispered, “Sorry,” before giving her dad a quick hug About to leave the kitchen she nailed Betty with a no-nonsense look “There’s laundry to be done if you can fit it into your day”
“I’ll check my schedule,” Betty retorted
“You do that”
“You didn’t tell us where you’re going,” Betty said swiveling around to watch Bobbi near the door Her gaze moved up and down as Bobbi s across the pale grey wool skirt For and cut to the knee, it was offset with classic black pumps, a plum colored turtleneck and a silk scarf around her neck in a deeper pluh it
“I’ve got a job interview,” Bobbi said dryly “Soht want to think about”
She grabbed her long, black dress coat froloves before heading out into the crisp, cold h to have melted the frost and white stuff from her windshield
Sunglasses lessened the brilliant play of sunlight on the snow and after letting the vehicle warm up for a few moments, she left Her intervieas for ten o’clock in the city—nearly forty iven herself an extra half an hour for traveling time
Traffic was heavier than usual due to road conditions, but she reached her destination with ten minutes to spare The Barrel & Chadwick law fir that with her experience she would be a shoo-in
As it was, she was h and when she factored in driving ti with that, she wasn’t sure it orth it They were desperate for soreat interview she was offered the job on the spot, with the caveat she would give an answer by evening
Driving back into New Waterford took nearly as long as the drive into the city and by the ti spot at the old arena, Bobbi was not in a good mood
It was noon She was hungry And it would seem, still jobless
Bobbi entered the arena that now housed her sister Billie’s hockey school Cold, she shivered as she strolled through the lobby, her eyes on the ice Billie was running a drill with a bunch of young ed at her h her