âMaybe We Ought To Have A Kid,â
Tyler suggested thoughtfully.
Kayla was startled. âWeâre divorced. Children should have two parents.â
âIâd be around enough.â
Kayla scoffed. âMostly gone.â
âNow, Kayla, you wouldnât want me to quit working and hang around the house....â
Again she mentioned, âWe are divorced.â
âYouâre an old-fashioned girl.â
âIâm a current woman, and I am single. There is no way, at all, that Iâd take on having a kid in this position. Iâm not that careless.â
He sighed into the phone. âSo. I suppose we ought to be married.â
âNo thank you. Weâve tried that.â And she hung up.
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LASS SMALL finds living on this planet at this time a fascinating experience People are amazing. She thinks that to be a teller of tales of people, places and things is absolutely marvelous.
One
It is now over five hundred years since TEXAS was first occupied by Europeans. The city of San Antonio has been altered and fooled with and adjusted. The downtown river is so lovely that itâs been embellished and funneled into more loops.
The riverboat rides are especially nice. You get to see all the old trees, the clean water and the preserved buildings along the way.
One of those riverside buildings, by a handy iron curlicued bridge, harbors the law firm of Reardon, Miller and Rodriguez. The building was renovated inside, but the outside was preserved. The exterior was all painted subtly in a blue-tinted gray and the results are elegant.
Handily, the firmâs office isnât far from the red granite Bexar County Courthouse. The red granite is the same granite that was used in Austin for the State Capitol. San Antonio has always been a little pushy.
The Bexar of Bexar County is pronounced âbear.â Of course, in a long-ago motion picture that can still be seen on cable TV, Errol Flynn called the county âBex-ar.â Hearing that, the San Antonio peopleâs eyes flinched and still do.
One of the Reardon, Miller and Rodriguez firm was Tyler Fuller. As a twenty-eight-year-old lawyer, he was a new rooster. He couldnât yet crow. He was again single.
The Fullers had been divorced for seven months, three weeks and two days. Tyler Fuller was not keeping track, he just happened to recall the time. After all, it had been he who had instigated the divorce.
It had stilled him with shock when the dark-haired, blue-eyed Kayla had discarded his name and gone back to her maiden name of Davie. She did that as if sheâd wiped out everything about Tyler Fuller.
Kayla acted like thereâd never been any good timesâshe hadnât seemed at all grieved to part from him. Sheâd flipped away like heâd never meant anything to her, at all.
When she got snippy and cold, and then moved out, heâd countered with the divorce. She hadnât turned a hair.
His parents, his siblings, his friends, even his kindergarten buddies all knew he was nuts.
Disgruntled, Tyler thought at least Kayla could have protested the divorce. She could have at least leaked a tear or two and looked at him with regret.
Tyler clearly remembered being in a group, not long after their divorce. He remembered having found her in the crowd and with casual élan heâd joined the segment which contained his ex-wife. With some assumed control, heâd used the excuse to be by her side by introducing Tom Keeper to her. Tomâs family owned a chunk of West TEXAS.
Tyler had named Kayla as Kayla Fuller, and sheâd given Tyler a glance as sheâd corrected, âMy last nameâs Davie.â