Today’s excerpt is from Too
Many Women, Book #1 of the Becker Trilogy. Everyone expects Bob to raise hell with Terri
for nearly getting herself killed while he was gone by not doing as told, but
Bob surprises them. Enjoy and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
Back in the
kitchen, Bill was finishing the clean-up work.
He glanced over his shoulder as Bob sat down across the table from
Terri. He thought, “Here it comes.”
Terri thought
the same thing before Bob asked, “I take it you have been well scolded by Leo
about today?”
Terri meekly
answered, “Yeah…and I’m really sorry, Bob.
I mean really sorry—not just
saying it. From now on you tell me to
shit, I’ll squat and ask what color.”
Bob shook his
head. “Okay, enough said. By the way, where’d you come up with your
less than elegant phrase?”
After Terri
joked, “Ten grand off my bill,” she grinned before she added, “Leo. He told me it would be my best plan to stay
alive and not have him turn me over his knee for the spanking I was about to
get. He also told me if the guy had
killed me, he—Leo—would have jumped up and down on my dead body. He was…understandably…very upset with me,
Bob.”
“And, I guess,
took your mind off the fact you had nearly died?”
“Yeah, that,
too—but I didn’t figure it out until just now, when you said it. Wow, pretty smart guy, your Sergeant Major.”
“Yes, he
is. You have no idea how much respect I
have for him.”
Leo
entered the room as Bob spoke. “Thank
you, Bob—didn’t know you cared.”
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