* * *
“Your water broke?”
Emi nodded yes, her face a roaring bonfire. Without warning, she winced and grabbed her stomach. “We gotta go.”
Cusack leaped from his Aeron. Suddenly, he was everywhere. He squeezed past Emi, who was standing in the door. He ran down the hall and grabbed Em’s coat from the hall closet. “Where’s your bag?”
“By the door where you left it.”
“Oh, right. Where are my keys?”
“Check your pockets.”
“Oh, right.”
“You ready to go?” asked Emi, trying hard not to snicker now that the contraction pain had eased. She waddled through the short corridor to the family room.
“Let’s roll,” Cusack replied, and raced back to help his wife.
In the elevator Cusack studied Emi intently. “Are you okay?”
“No different than any other mother in the history of mankind.”
When they were outside Emi hugged Cusack’s right arm, her overnight bag slung over his right shoulder. Together they marched toward the retro tan-and-white Beemer, the couple energized by December chill and the adventure ahead. Ever the gentleman, Cusack opened the passenger door for Emi and helped her inside.
Cusack jumped in the car behind the steering wheel, smiled crookedly, and said, “Here we go.”
“Here we go,” echoed Emi.
He turned the key in the ignition, hoped for the best, and smiled crookedly as their Beemer fired the first time.
ALSO BY NORB VONNEGUT
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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THE GODS OF GREENWICH. Copyright © 2011 by Norb Vonnegut. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vonnegut, Norb.
The gods of Greenwich / Norb Vonnegut. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-38469-2
1. Investment advisers—Fiction. 2. Fraud—Fiction. 3. Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3622.O678G63 2011
813'.6—dc22
2010042895
First Edition: April 2011
eISBN 978-1-4299-6187-5
First Minotaur Books eBook Edition: April 2011
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