CHAPTER FIVEGloria Plum loved her work and hated her co-workers. Or maybe it was the other way around. Marvia had never been able to get that clear. At any rate, Gloria liked her own company better than that of anyone else. For years she had made it a point to rise early, eat breakfast alone and leave the house before other family members came downstairs.
Marvia had thought that was cruel in Marcus’s last years, but today she was relieved not to have to face both her mother and her son over the breakfast table. Jamie would be more than enough. Add Gloria and…Marvia didn’t even want to think about it.
Scrambled eggs and toast with marmalade. A real old-fashioned breakfast. Marvia had the bread out of its wrapper before Jamie entered the kitchen and the eggs cracked and beaten in a bowl.
