Alaskan Homecoming by Teri Wilson

Author:Teri Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Liam, a word, please?” Pastor McNeil stuck his head out the church door and motioned for Liam to come inside.

“Certainly. I’ll be right there.” He finished packing the snowball cradled in his hands and added it to the pile he’d been working on all morning.

Eight hundred fifty-six down.

One hundred forty-four to go.

He glanced at his watch. He still had several hours until school got out. No problem, assuming that whatever his boss wanted to discuss wouldn’t take the better part of the afternoon. He couldn’t imagine it would. Then again, he wasn’t typically summoned to the head pastor’s office. He actually didn’t spend much time in meetings with Lou at all. The fact that this was the second time in as many weeks that he’d be sitting across that great expanse of desk wasn’t without significance.

He brushed the snow from his gloves and headed inside. The blast of warm air was such a sea change from the temperature outdoors that for a moment, he was disoriented. He blinked against the assault of central heating. With pinpricks of pain, his face dethawed. By the time he reached Pastor McNeil’s office, he could once again feel his mouth. His ears, fingers and toes were still a different story.

He pulled off his gloves and knocked on the open door. “You need something, Pastor?”

Lou looked up and waved him inside. “Come in. Have a seat.”

“Yes, sir.” Liam shed his parka and sat.

“That’s quite a stack of snowballs you’ve got out there.”

“Yes, it is. I’m almost finished. In a regulation snowball fight, the team is allowed one thousand snowballs. The past few days, we’ve been using half of our practice time making our ammunition, so I thought I’d get a head start today. I want the boys to get a feel for just how quickly they can go through that many snowballs.” Liam was guessing it would be far quicker than they expected.

“And your first official game is coming up soon, isn’t it?”

“Yes, sir. This weekend. I know the boys would be thrilled if you could come cheer them on.”

“I wouldn’t miss it. I suppose Josephine will be there with the girls, as well?”

The use of Posy’s stage name caught Liam off guard again. Why did it seem to grate on his nerves more and more every time he heard it? She’d been back for nearly three weeks now. He’d heard the name tossed about practically every day. Josephine Sutton. Some of the girls had even taken to calling her Miss Josephine. She’d asked them to call her Posy, but the discovery of her YouTube videos had kindled their interest in her stage name. They were suddenly fascinated with all sorts of new things, each and every one of which was in some way related to ballet.

“I don’t know, sir. We haven’t discussed it.” Pastor McNeil frowned to such an extent that Liam added a hasty “Yet. We haven’t discussed it yet.”

“I certainly hope that’s on your agenda for this afternoon. The game is in two days, is it not? I know you want every member of the youth group there.

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