Living in Threes by Judith Tarr - Sample Chapter - Book View Cafe

4 Living in Threes
enough for a whole team.”
“Including you?”
That came out of the way Mom was smiling—
excited, as if she had a secret and she couldn’t
wait to share. She’d been dreaming about Egypt
for years, following all of Aunt Jessie’s adventures
and reading and studying and talking about
maybe someday, if she had time, if she could get
away, if—
There were always reasons not to go. First she
had to make partner in the law firm. Then she got
asked to be a judge in the county court, and that
needed her to be always on. Always perfect. And
then there was the cancer.
So maybe she figured it was now or never. I
could see that. Even get behind it. But I wasn’t
sure how I felt about it.
Mom away for the whole summer? Was she
really ready to leave me for that long? I didn’t
have my license yet. How was I going to—
All that zipped through my head between the
time I asked my question and the time Mom
answered, “Including you.”
That stopped me cold.
Mom grinned at my expression. “You really
thought it was me? I wish, but there are a couple
of big cases coming on trial, and I might be called
to the bench for another one, and—”
“You said you were going to take it easy this
summer,” I said. “We both were. What would I do