“I’m here!” he hollered. “Happy birthday!”
He didn’t even make it into the hall. I suppose that to the neighbors, we—Arch, Tom, Ellie, yours truly, and both dogs—looked like a football team. How else could a group of people and hounds surge forward in such a perfect wave? Nor would the neighbors have understood why we were yelling and carrying on. This was April the fifteenth, for crying out loud. Nobody was happy on tax day.
But we were. After I hugged Julian, and Arch had given him a cool high five, Arch turned to me.
“Hey, Mom,” he said, “I love you.” He gave me a tight, firm hug.
“Happy birthday,” I said. And I hugged my son back.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DIANE MOTT DAVIDSON lives in Evergreen, Colorado, with her family. She is the author of eleven bestselling culinary mysteries and is at work on her twelfth.
CHOPPING SPREE
A Bantam Book
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Bantam hardcover edition published July 2002
Bantam mass market edition / March 2003
Published by
Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York
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Copyright © 2002 by Diane Mott Davidson
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