him a second chance.” She was working herself up. “I gave him lots of second chances, and he blew them all.”
“He’s been skipping out on you to play poker on a regular basis?” Gene asked innocently.
“No,” she admitted reluctantly. As upset as she was about this situation, she wasn’t about to lie about it to her grandfather.
Her grandfather looked at her pointedly. “Then what?” he wanted to know.
She was referring to Levi going out of town for meetings and seminars as well as coming home late and falling asleep on the couch before she could get his dinner warmed up. But she had no intentions of going into all that now.
Besides, she had a feeling that her grandfather would be taking Levi’s side in that, saying he saw nothing wrong in a man trying to better his family’s lot by putting in all those long hours at work.
“I don’t want to talk about it,” she informed her grandfather and with that, she turned on her heel and hurried away to find her grandmother.
At least her grandmother sided with her, Claire thought.
Or at least she hoped so.
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