Bennett could hear something off in Jennie’s voice though she talked just fine and even laughed a few times. But something was definitely wrong. He wanted to push her, but he felt rather lucky to get her on the phone at all, so he put up with her secrets, which she obviously didn’t want to tell him.
Her mom was not doing well, but the surgery had been a success and the side-effects to the chemotherapy were normal and to be expected.
Jennie had said nothing of the gallery tour, which meant it hadn’t gone well. She’d spent the time on the phone talking about her new haircut and some of the markets she’d wandered through the day before.
“So what about the gallery?” he asked. One of the major reasons she’d gone to Seattle was to figure things out with her future in art.
“It didn’t work out
