A Place for Family by Mia Ross

Author:Mia Ross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Was the Sawyer kitchen ever completely empty? Amanda wondered while she cracked eggs for omelets Saturday morning. John and Matt were there, breaking up a day that had started before dawn with a farmer’s breakfast. Caty was filling a bottle for Hailey while the little cherub blew raspberries at her daddy. Ridge, Kyle and Emily stopped just long enough for some cereal and orange juice before heading out to Kyle’s baseball game.

As the van went up the driveway, Amanda realized she had no way to get into town until they came back. Glancing at the clock, she saw that it was nine. “When is baseball over?”

“Two, maybe three,” John mumbled around a mouthful of eggs. “Doubleheader today.”

Caty was the first one to figure out what she really meant. “Do you need the van?”

Much as Amanda hated to cancel her appointment, she saw no way around it. “It can wait, I guess. Matt, did you have a chance to look at my car?”

Since he was chewing, he nodded. After a sip of coffee, he replied, “My advice? Call a wrecker.”

More bad news, Amanda thought as she bit her lip. “It’s as bad as all that?”

“If it was ten years newer, I’d take a shot at it just for fun. Main problem is, all those fried parts are gonna be tough to find.”

“Which makes them expensive,” she guessed.

“Yup. Junkyard’s the best place for that stuff, but it takes a long time to find something in good enough shape to use. The scrapyard will come and get the car, give you seventy-five bucks or so and get it out of here.”

Nice as he was being about the whole thing, it didn’t take a genius to read between the lines: please get your wreck of a car out of my barn. “Okay, I’ll call them Monday.”

“That doesn’t solve your problem today,” Caty pointed out. “You can use Matt’s truck if you want.”

“Sorry, I have to get more seed this morning,” Matt corrected his wife. “What about John’s car?”

John broke up laughing, making Amanda smile. “I don’t know how to drive a standard.”

“You’re kidding.” She shook her head, and Matt said, “Well, I can go later. Go ahead and take my truck.”

“That’ll set us behind another half day, and we’re already a week behind,” John reminded him. “I’ll take her and then come back.”

He’d obviously decided he was accompanying her to the doctor, and Amanda’s pulse spiked with dread. She was nervous enough without bringing along a spectator. Especially not one who’d bared his soul to her one night and gave no sign of it the following morning. His bizarre attitude was making her edgier than she’d have imagined was humanly possible. “You don’t have to—”

“No problem. Really.” Punctuating the final word with a “don’t argue with me” look, he shoved his chair back and stood. “I’ve got some things to do on the way. Let’s go.”

“I’m not ready.” Appalled by the shake in her voice, Amanda wanted nothing more than to crawl back under the covers and go back to sleep.

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