Crazy Little Thing by Ellie Thornton

Author:Ellie Thornton [Thornton, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2023-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Kate

There were a lot of reasons why Kate loved Diamond Cove library. She loved the white stained glass windows with hints of gold and blue here and there, the bookcases with arched pathways between them, the wrought iron staircases that wound in a circle from the first to the second floor along with the rolling staircases against the bookcases throughout, the hidden alcoves and window seats, leather and claw foot couches and chairs, gold silk-patterned curtains over the windows, the green Tiffany Desk lamps that sat on every reading table, and a massive fireplace that Kate wanted to be lit all the time because she was always cold.

Summers were the worst because the air conditioner was on. It was October already and it still ran, pumping the library full of icy air. She tugged at the sleeves of her tan fisherman sweater that she tucked the front of into her jeans. She had a T-shirt on underneath but doubted it’d see the light of day. She shivered.

Though, old people often got cold, so the fireplace got used more often than you might think it would.

The building had all the charm of old-school libraries, without all the troubles of them. Because this library had been fashioned to look old but had really only been around for a decade. Of course, the building itself had been around for nearly sixty years, it was an old conservatory that had been abandoned twenty-five years ago, purchased fifteen years ago by a very wealthy man by the name of Adam Moreau, and refurbished into a library by a talented woman named Belle Moreau, who also happened to be Adam’s wife.

It had a small modern kitchen, bathrooms with sinks high enough Kate didn’t have to hunch over to reach them, and all-new electricity, plumbing, and heating. In fact, to light the fireplace, all she had to do was push a light switch. It was awesome. The place was nicer and more comfortable than her apartment. She’d move in if she could get away with it.

Kate had come here seven years ago after seeing an ad in the paper in the public library she worked in for a year after getting her Masters Degree in Library Science. Fun fact: libraries did still get newspapers. The head librarian at the time, Louis Stansfield, had hired her right away and she’d never looked back.

This place, and the people who frequented it, were almost as important to her as her family. Being here was the first time she’d ever been around people who treated her like she was more than just a wallflower, treated her like she had something special to offer. She’d poured herself into this community and this job because of that.

Two of those people, Nancy, a young retiree in her sixties who had replaced work for tracksuits, and Rosa, a legal retiree in her eighties who made the best tamales Kate had ever tried, inched their way into the library.

Or rather, Rosa had a death grip

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