Simone (The Ciprianos of Kellington Book 2) Read Free Page A

seen him in months--since he’s been in California.”
    “That sounds great, I
can’t wait to see him too, he’s always been fun.”
    Delia snickered a bit
just as the phone rang. “I’ll get it,” she said, getting up. “Hello, Timeless
Treasures, this is Delia.”
    “Hey Deedlebug, how’s
life been treating you?”
    “Hey there, Simple
Simon, life has been treating me well, and you?”
    “Life has been good
even though I’m dealing with a case right now. Thought I’d give you a call and
see how you were.”
    “You’ve been doing a
lot of that lately, you know?”
    “What do you mean?”
    “Calling me up out of
the blue like this. You’ve never called me this much at all, even when you were
away at college you would only call me like once a month or so. Plus, this is
the first time you’ve called me Deedlebug in a long time, penny for your thoughts?”
    It got really quiet on
his end and she wondered if maybe he might have hung up but then he said, “I
was just thinking about you, missed hearing your voice.”
    She had to smile even
more because she thought it was so sweet, “Well, I hope that everything is all right.”
    “Yeah, everything is all
right, listen I’ll talk with you sometime later. Take care, Deedlebug.”
    “You too, Simple Simon,
take care.” Hanging up the phone, Delia stood lost in thought for a moment
before walking back over to the table.
    “Who’s Simple Simon?”
Jaslyn asked.
    “Simone. That was the
name I gave him when we were young. I had made up names for each brother
including mine when we were young. Simone was Simple Simon, Gianni was Johnny
Appleseed, Federico, let me see, he was Agent Fed and Andrew was Andy Panda.”
Both women laughed out loud. She knew that they sounded silly but this was from
when she was a kid, just a silly kid.
    “What about Renzo? What
would you have called him?”
    Delia cackled when she
heard Jaslyn ask that question. “Rin Tin Tin.” Soon they both started laughing
to the point that both of them were snorting, which only caused them to laugh
even harder. “I dare you to say that to him while you guys are making love,
just scream out Rin Tin Tin and see what happens.” This only made matters worse
as Jaslyn fell to the floor, still laughing.
    “That is hilarious as
hell, and don’t think I won’t do it, too.” Jaslyn told her, gasping for air as
she pulled herself back up into her chair. After they composed themselves for a
moment Jaslyn told her friend, “But you know something, Simone has been calling
here a lot, though. It seems like he’s called here every other day.”
    Delia couldn’t
understand it either and pondered it while drinking her tea. Lately, she’d been
so busy with work, family and Rodger that she honestly didn’t have time to talk
with any of her other friends besides Jaslyn. “There is no telling with Simone.
He’s probably just calling to be calling.” She shrugged it off, continuing to
eat her lunch and make idle chitchat.

 
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    After they both cleaned
up from lunch, Delia heard the delivery truck out back and knew that Rodger had
come back from doing a delivery out of town. Thankfully they didn’t have many
people coming in and she had saved him something for lunch. When she went to
greet him, he was pulling down the door to the back of the truck. He was
casually dressed in pants that looked worn from the wear and tear of hard work,
a pair of black Converse sneakers and a gray wife-beater shirt that showed off
his light brown muscular arms and back which glistened in the sun. When he
turned around to see her standing there, he smiled that whiter-than-white smile
of his. “Looks like I’m going to have to open this back up again, huh?”
    Once it was open again,
he grabbed one of the blankets they used to protect the furniture and spread it
over the tailgate. She never thought that she would have been with someone for
as long as she’d been with Rodger, especially not someone she