A Family Affair (Glock Grannies Cozy Mystery Book 3) by Shannon VanBergen

Author:Shannon VanBergen [VanBergen, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2019-03-30T22:00:00+00:00

21

I sat down at the little sandwich shop and looked at the time. I was early. I sank back in my chair and told myself to breathe. I had fifteen minutes to collect myself before Les and Annalise arrived.

I had spent the morning visiting Grandma Dean and even though she was full of good news—it had only been a minor heart attack that they felt was brought on by stress—I still felt shaken by the whole thing. The phone call I got from my mother an hour ago didn’t help. The Grannies had called her, per the agreement, and told her what happened. Her and my sister were flying in tomorrow to stay for a few days. I should’ve been happy to see them, after all, it had been a few months since I saw them last, but for some reason, I dreaded it. Maybe because I had hoped that the next time I saw them, I’d have my life straightened out. Instead, I was the same hot mess—just with lip gloss.

I looked up and saw Annalise walk in the door. I was thankful she was early too. It gave me less time to stress about things out of my control.

She hugged me when she got to the table. “I’m so sorry to hear about Geraldine!” she said, sitting down. “I bet that was such a shock to all of you!”

“It was,” I admitted.

“So,” Annalise said with a smile. “Tell me about Les. Is he cute?”

Hmm. How should I answer that? But before I had a chance to answer, a guy walked over and interrupted our conversation.

“Hey, Annalise. How are you doing?” I looked up to see a tall guy with muscle upon muscle. He was huge. Clearly, he was a bodybuilder.

Annalise’s cheeks flushed. “Hey, Aaron, how are you?”

“I’m great,” he answered quickly and a little too high-pitched.

There was a moment of awkward silence and then he spoke again. “Well, I guess I’ll see you around.”

He turned to leave, and I whispered to Annalise. “Who was that?”

She rolled her eyes. “My ex-boyfriend.”

Uh-oh. If that’s what she was used to, she was going to be really disappointed when she saw Les. Les could fit into that guy’s back pocket.

I couldn’t help myself, I had to know why they broke up. “So, what happened between you two?”

She laughed. “Well, for starters, he was more into himself than he was me. He was always looking in a mirror, always talking about his ‘gym goals.’ Outside of a physical relationship, we really didn’t have much.”

“Well, hopefully that was at least good,” I said, trying not to imagine myself with him.

“When you were little, did you go trick-or-treating?” Annalise asked.

“Um…yes.” That was an odd question.

“And did you ever have that one house that always gave out full-size candy bars?” she asked.

“Yes!” I said, remembering the exact house. Sometimes, my sister and I would even stop by again later in the evening to try to get them to give us a second one.

“Well, imagine going up

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.