Dew Angels by Melanie Schwapp

Author:Melanie Schwapp [Melanie Schwapp]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908446206
Publisher: HopeRoad
Published: 2013-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

36

It was that very evening, when he came to pick up Petra, that ‘we’ll talk to Eric’ happened. This time, when he squinted, everyone saw.

He squinted down at Aunt May, his toothpick bobbing as she told him that Petra had changed her mind about the children’s home, and she would gladly refund him any money he would lose because of her niece’s confusion. He smiled his beautiful, perfect smile, picked up a banana from the basket, peeled it, and after he had bitten it, he drawled, “Since is never you born the baby, Lady, I don’t think you have any right to decide what to do with her. The baby mother tell me she want her chile in a home, and that’s exactly where she goin’!”

Aunt May blinked in shock, Nathan blinked in shock, even Mrs. Lyndsay blinked in shock.

Aunt May cleared her throat and tried again. “Eric, I don’t think you understand. What I’m telling you is that Petra did say that she would put Kendra in the home, but she’s changed her mind, and the baby will be staying with us.”

“Us? Who is us?” Eric looked around the kitchen curiously, chewing nonchalantly on the banana. “Us? Tell me, Lady, is that what you goin’ to tell the judge? That us goin’ look after a special needs chile? Us being a mad-ass gardener who talk to leaves, and a blind woman who can’t tell if she feedin’ a cat or a rat, and a fat ole woman who soon dead from heart attack? What you think the judge goin’ say to that, Fatta? That you is a the perfect role model for the baby when you have a teenage girl in your charge who drop out of school and smoke weed all day?”

Oh God! Nola felt the room drop from under her feet. Oh God! They were going to lose Kendra, and all because of her! Oh God! She grabbed on to the counter as Eric smiled and gave her a wink.

“Nah! Nah! It can’t go so! Who the hell you think you is to come in here and tell us wha’ to do with our Kensey?!” It was Nathan, rushing from the kitchen door with his hands waving emphatically through the air.

“No, Nathan! No need for that!” Aunt May held up a hand. She stepped towards Eric and looked up at him with unflinching eyes. “Yes, Eric, call us anything you wish, but the fact remains that before you allow Kendra to leave this house, you’re going to have to go through that same mad-ass gardener, that same blind woman, and this fat ole woman! Kendra is ours, and judge or no judge, she’s staying here.”

Eric chuckled and dropped the banana peel on to the floor. “Fatta, you swimmin’ in water that too deep for you, man. What you don’t seem to understand is that Petra and I linking up as in man and wife! As in mama and papa! That’s right. Kendra goin’ finally have a daddy, and this daddy happen to know exactly what’s best for his little girl.

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