A Family Affair: The Return: A Small Town Family Saga (Truth In Lies Book 13) by Mary Campisi

Author:Mary Campisi [Campisi, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942158295
Publisher: Mary Campisi Books, LLC
Published: 2017-08-28T22:00:00+00:00

When Lily’s mother told her about the girl from Pennsylvania who didn’t like to talk and was staying at the Heart Sent, Lily wanted to know all about her.

What was her name?

How old was she?

Why was she in Magdalena?

Was she with her mom and dad?

And the biggest question of all: why didn’t she like to talk?

So many questions filled her head, swirled around like a milkshake in a blender. Her mother told her the girl’s name was Hope, and she was Mimi Pendergrass’s granddaughter.

Mimi had a granddaughter?

Yup, Mom said she did, and now she was in town with her mother, and a man-friend came, too. Was he a kissy-kissy man-friend? Lily giggled. Why did so many people pretend they were just friends when they were really boyfriend and girlfriend? She bet Max and the lady with the pretty brown eyes were kissy-kissy friends. He got all red when she asked and his lips got all twitchy.

But sometimes she could tell before it even happened. Pop called that intuition, and he said you either had it or you didn’t, and Lily had it. And that’s why Mimi Pendergrass wanted her to meet her granddaughter, Hope, the girl who didn’t like to talk.

Lily had never met anybody who didn’t like to talk, unless you counted Nate when he was in a frowny-face mood or had to think. That’s when he wanted “complete silence.” It was hard to wait until he gave the go-ahead to talk again, but she knew his brain needed the quiet to figure out problems. Some people’s brain couldn’t work right unless the whole room was quiet. Nate was one of those people. Pop Benito was not.

Pop could talk and work on problems with the television and the radio blaring, plus he didn’t care if she talked, too, not like Nate did. And sometimes Pop would even sing and dance around the kitchen while he sorted out whatever was in his head. She’d asked Nate why he couldn’t do that, but he acted like he hadn’t heard her like he did when he didn’t want to answer. Lily knew his tricks, and whether he knew it or not, she had a few of her own.

And that’s why she was going to see if she could help Mimi’s granddaughter be not so shy—at least around her. At two o’clock the afternoon after Mimi called, Lily rang the doorbell of the Heart Sent and waited. She’d counted to seven when Mimi opened the door, her dangle-ball earrings bouncing as she moved her head.

“Lily! Thank you so much for coming.”

“You’re welcome.” She held out a small white box. “I made vanilla pizzelles.”

Mimi accepted the box, her face breaking out with a big smile. “Did you make these yourself, Lily?”

She nodded. “Yup. Mom didn’t even double-check me this time.”

“Goodness gracious, but I am impressed. Come on in and let me fix you a glass of lemonade.”

Lily glanced into the other rooms as she followed Mimi into the kitchen. “Where’s Hope?” she whispered.

“She’s outside on the swing,” Mimi whispered back, pointing to the back door that led to the flower gardens.

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