Changing Scenes by Provost Jennifer Allis

Author:Provost, Jennifer Allis [Provost, Jennifer Allis]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty-Five

Donato

After battling some of the worst Christmas Eve traffic in recent memory, I pulled up at my grandmother’s place in New Bedford. It was a white and blue raised ranch that took up half the block, a large but unassuming house that was built over a century ago, back when poor people had a ton of kids and needed someplace to put them. Okay, I guess that was still a thing.

Technically the house belongs to my parents, but there’s a story behind that. Apparently my parents hated this place, but ended up buying it anyway because of the in-law apartment—that included a full kitchen—on the lower level. My mother, wise woman that she is, knew that the only way she’d ever get her own kitchen was if my grandmother had a place of her own to hold court. It was also the only place they could afford that had enough bedrooms for all of us, but that was a secondary consideration. And so the house had always been known as Grandma’s Place.

My sisters, brother, and I had long since moved out, but man, those extra bedrooms came in handy during the holidays. Between my siblings and their significant others, they had produced eleven kids over the years, and Amelia’s pregnancy was bringing the horde to an even dozen. Which meant that for the past few years I’d approached the holidays with a bit of dread, since at the ripe old age of twenty-nine I had no wife and no kids, and everyone had to weigh in on why I was still single. My explanations that I’d just never found the right girl were never good enough, but I couldn’t use that excuse this year. While I hadn’t been paying attention the right girl had wandered right into my restaurant.

I stared at the house for a moment, then I grabbed my phone from the cup holder and read the last text I’d gotten from Astrid for the hundredth time. It had come through while I was driving, so I hadn’t replied yet. What I had done was smile all the way through the holiday traffic.

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