TRYING TEXAS
Chapter 1
I must have done something terrible in a past life to deserve this kind of punishment. Really terrible. Like clubbed baby seals and knocked down old ladies in the street terrible.
As I stared out the front window at the long, never-ending stretch of highway, I had to fight the overwhelming urge to fling myself out of the moving SUV. The gray strip of blacktop seemed to go on into infinity. Pure, unabashed nothingness. Isolation surrounded by dust, cows, and—
“Was that a tumbleweed?” I demanded.
Eddie stared straight ahead, eyes on the road like a hypnotized zombie. “Uh-huh.”
Had we really been in New York just this morning? It didn’t seem possible. My six a.m. caffeine injection and everything bagel with shmear from the deli around the corner from my apartment
