Aria's Christmas Wish by Lieske Victorine E

Author:Lieske, Victorine E. [Lieske, Victorine E.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Lively holiday music played over the speakers as Kendra stocked the candy shelf. It was hard keeping up with the demand, especially with only five days left until Christmas. Everyone was last minute shopping.

Janet, another employee, walked by and then stopped short, her bracelets clanging together. “Ooh, is that who I think it is coming in?”

Kendra looked up as the bell to the door sounded. Jacob? She glanced at the clock. He was thirty minutes early. What was he doing there? Janet elbowed her. “He’s here for you, isn’t he?”

Kendra shrugged. “I don’t know.” She left her stacks of candy and approached him. “Everything okay?”

He exhaled and ran a hand through his hair. From the looks of it, he’d been doing that a lot today. “Not really.”

Her heart jumped. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. I mean—nothing serious. I’m just figuring out my mother isn’t who I thought she was.”

A woman walked up to them. “Excuse me. Do you carry any Christmas tree skirts?”

“Yes. Aisle five. I can show you.” Kendra gave Jacob a sympathetic look before leaving to show the woman where she could find what she was looking for.

After helping another person find something, she came back to her spot restocking the Christmas candy. Jacob joined her. “Sorry to bother you while you’re working.”

“I don’t mind. As long as you don’t care if I have to run and help a customer.”

“Not at all.”

“So, do you want to talk about what happened?” Kendra picked up another stack of candy cane boxes and shoved them on the shelf.

Jacob’s shoulders sank. “She all but admitted to what she did. And she’s not sorry. She thinks what she did was for my own good.”

Kendra paused and bit her lower lip. She didn’t dare tell him what she was thinking, because she could already see it would be a bad idea, but she saw his mother’s point. He was who he was today because of what his mother did.

Even though she had begged for him to come home, he was a superstar. And he never would have been had he stayed behind with her.

“I always thought she was weak. Needed special attention. But now, I just don’t know. I think she’s been manipulating me.”

The back door opened and Shelly came in, a stack of boxes in her arms. Her black hair was pulled up into a severe bun, and she wore the same sensible shoes Kendra had always seen her in. When she saw Jacob, she narrowed her eyes. “We don’t allow personal visits while you’re on the clock.”

Mortified, Kendra’s face heated like a red balloon. “I’m sorry,” she whispered.

“I was just buying some Christmas candy.” Jacob stepped back to look at the shelf. “I need some bacon flavored candy canes. Do you have any?”

“Bacon?” Shelly scoffed. “We don’t have anything like that.”

Kendra hid a smile. “What’s wrong with peppermint?”

“It gives me gas.”

A laugh sounded from the next aisle, giving Janet away. Shelly didn’t seem to find it amusing, however. She set the boxes down next to Kendra.

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