Chapter 4
Up ahead, a car pulled away from the sidewalk and he hit the gas, angling for the empty spot. Another horn blared but he ignored it. Pulling up his parking brake, he put his Honda Civic into neutral and half-turned in the driver seat, one hand on the passenger seat headrest so he could get one last look at her. “Well, we’re here. Give me a kiss.”
Abby unbuckled her seat belt and slid forward to plant a kiss on his cheek.
“Have a great day, Abba-dabba-do,” he said, wrinkling his nose at her.
With a giggle, she hugged her book to her chest with both arms and flopped back onto the seat. “You, too, Mr. Magoo!”
“Big smile for the camera today,” he told her. “I want to see all those teeth.”
Abby mugged for him, flashing a wide grin that did a pretty good job of showing off most of her entire mouth—he could even see the hole in the back where one of her molars had fallen out a few weeks earlier, and the new tooth hadn’t fully grown in yet.