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“YOU DID WHAT?” KATE NEWMAN asked, tossing aside the letter
from the IRS and shuffling through the papers piled on her desk like
she could find something to negate what she’d read. Something that
would magically make this whole tax mess disappear. “Tell me this is some
kind of joke.”
No sound came from the chair across from her. She stopped riffling and
looked up. “Jeremy?”
Her friend and business partner sat defeated, shoulders slumped, head
drooping like a withered sunflower. Even his ever-jittering leg was still.
She picked up the certified letter that had arrived at the salon an hour
ago. Only one question left to ask. “How did this happen?”
A tear dripped onto Jeremy’s shirt before he lifted his head and met her
gaze with the saddest puppy-dog eyes she’d ever seen. Jeremy could be a
total drama queen, which Kate loved about him, but this time the theatrics
were absent. He wagged his head. “It’s Victor.”
“Victor?” she repeated. “What does he have to do with the salon? With
paying our taxes?”
The small office at the rear of their salon seemed to rock as the reality
of the situation sank in. IRS. Taxes not paid. Future in peril. Kate grabbed
the edge of the desk and focused on her business partner.
He swallowed before replying in a near whisper, “He’s got cancer. It’s
in his bones now.”
“Cancer?”
“He’s in hospice.”
Her legs collapsed and she fell into her swivel chair. “Oh, my God. Why
didn’t you tell me? What kind?”
More tears slid down Jeremy’s cheeks. He closed his eyes, but not
before she saw the torturous pain present within their honey depths. “Victor
was diagnosed with testicular cancer five years ago. He underwent
treatment, and the doctors said he was in the clear. We didn’t think it was a
big deal. We never even told anyone. But six months ago, he started feeling
bad. His back started hurting. The cancer came back. And you know when
he lost his job, he lost his insurance.”
Kate couldn’t think of a thing to say. Her feelings swirled inside her,
twisting into a knot of sorrow and outrage. How could this happen? How
could Jeremy’s husband be sick and her business at risk? Her world had
tipped, and she now hung on by her fingernails.
“I didn’t know what to do. He was so sick…is so sick, and there was all
that money sitting there in the bank. I thought I could pay it back in time to
pay taxes, but there were more bills. And an experimental medication. Oh,
God, Kate, I’m so sorry, but he’s my life.”
Jeremy’s last words emerged as a
strangled plea before he broke into gut-wrenching sobs. “Please forgive me,
Kate. I needed the money. To stop the cancer. But it didn’t work.”
She closed her eyes and leaned her head against the leather chair. She
wanted to cry for her friend, to express some emotion at learning Victor
faced death.
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