Daniel's Gift by Barbara Freethy

Author:Barbara Freethy [Freethy, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Guardian angels, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Unmarried mothers, Adult, General
ISBN: 9780380781898
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1996-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Jenny walked into McDougal's Market just before eight o'clock Wednesday morning. It seemed like a lifetime since she had been to work. Although not counting the weekend, she had only missed two days. It hardly seemed possible. So much had changed.

George Hanling, a portly man with a face that looked liked Santa Claus and a belly to match, was the first person to see her arrive. George was the butcher, and a nicer man to yield a cleaver she had yet to meet. He was standing by the bakery counter, jelly dripping down one finger as he bit into the center of a donut.

"Oh, Jesus," he muttered, swallowing as he reached for a napkin.

"Your wife said no more donuts, George."

George cleaned the jelly off his fingers, then took her hand. "I am so sorry, I can't believe what's happened. We've been worried about you. If there's anything I can do ..."

Jenny nodded and kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks. You're a sweetie."

George turned a dark shade of red as he headed back to work.

Jenny looked up as Prudence Meyers called her name. Pru was a sexy, twenty-seven-year-old blonde with earrings that dangled down to her shoulders, a skirt that crept up her thighs, and a heart as big as the Pacific Ocean. Pru, also a single mother, had been a checker at McDougal's for almost five years, and she and Jenny had become close friends.

Although working as a checker in a grocery store was not Jenny's dream job, it did pay the bills. It also allowed her the opportunity to take classes at night and develop her jewelry business. Someday she would be her own boss and have a chance to express her creative nature full-time, something she could not do while scanning produce and dairy products.

Still, over the past seven years Jenny had made some good friends in the store. She was a social animal by nature, and McDougal's had become a second home to her. Unfortunately, with the retirement of T. W. McDougal six months earlier, and the takeover by his nephew Chuck, McDougal's was now taking on the personality of a supermarket instead of a neighborhood store.

As if on cue, Chuck stuck his head out of the manager's window. Jenny thought, not for the first time, that the man had bugged the counters and planted hidden videos under the bananas. He always seemed to pop up at the worst possible time. He waved for her to come to the office. She waved back but paused by Pru's counter.

"Hi ya, hon, how ya doin?" Pru asked as she finished a checkout and handed the lady her receipt.

"Hanging in there," Jenny said, her voice catching in the face of Pru's sympathetic smile. "This is harder than I thought."

Pru came around the counter and gave Jenny a hug, never minding the fact that a customer looked at both of them, sighed, and moved on to the next aisle.

Jenny smiled at her with watery eyes. "You're going to get in trouble.

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