Denver Cereal

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
(part six)
Saturday, 9 p.m.
Sandy leaned her head against the rolled towel Aden slipped behind her head. In the warm safety of the hot tub, he rubbed her feet one at a time. If she wasn’t so full, she would be completely limp.
Over the course of the day, her resistance to dating Aden had waned. [...]

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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
(part five)

Jill pulled the Lexus SUV up to Megan’s house. Before she could fully stop the car, Katy flew out of the front door. She hopped up and down until Jill got out of the SUV.
“MOMMY!!”
And Jill knew she was right where she belonged.
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“Hi,” Val said. She ruffled his hair. “I wondered what happened [...]

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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
(part four) 
“Oh,” Jill said. She was sitting in the passenger seat of Big Sam’s work truck.
“Oh?” Sam asked.
“Well, I just realized why people say that Jacob is gay.”
“Because of Blane.”
“They look a lot alike. Is Blane your son?”
“No,” Sam said. “We think he’s either my brother’s son or my Dad’s son. My brother died [...]

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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
(part three) 
Saturday Afternoon, 3 PM
 
“Who are you?” Mike asked.
He walked into the kitchen where a short, slim blond woman was riffling through the cupboards. The woman made a disgusted sound and began tossing the boxes of cereal in a five gallon trashcan.
“What are you doing?” Mike grabbed box after box of cereal.
“I’m cleaning the junk [...]

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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
(part two) 
“Why don’t you come with me today?” Sam asked. “I spend Saturdays going from site to site. You could come along with me. You’d learn a little bit about our business. Maybe you won’t feel so strange.”

“Is there a lot of walking?  I tried to shop and couldn’t really do that.”
“No,” Sam said. “Do [...]

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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
(part one) 
 Saturday Morning, 3:30 AM
Jill spun the empty ceramic mug on the table in the main Castle kitchen. Not wanting to bother anyone, she sat alone in the dark. Without work, or Katy, Jill felt lost. Mike and Val had even taken Sarah and Scooter to the fishing cabin overnight.
And Jacob was out of the [...]

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