Finding Your Love (A Town Lost in Time Book 2) by Bess McBride

Author:Bess McBride
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Bess McBride
Published: 2019-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

A few days later, at Emily’s insistence that she needed a job, Leigh took Emily to the boardinghouse to meet Martha Lundrum. Emily had been curious about meeting her, and she wasn’t surprised to see that Martha was extraordinarily beautiful with platinum-blonde hair, lustrous blue eyes and fair skin. She was tall and slender to Emily’s short and curvy figure.

Martha invited them into the kitchen for coffee, and Emily scanned the large utilitarian house as they walked down the hall. Devoid of many decorations, the walls were painted a dull white. But that very dullness showed that the house was clean. They passed a dining room featuring a large table that must have held sixteen people comfortably.

Leigh and Emily were shown to chairs at a rectangular pine table in the kitchen, where Martha served coffee. Since it was Monday, Emily hoped that Luke was at school and not at the boardinghouse, where she might encounter him.

She realized that made no sense. How could she ask Leigh to introduce her to Martha in hopes of asking for a job, when she wanted to avoid Luke? It was likely she would end up serving him breakfast and dinner every day.

“It is so nice to meet you at last, Emily,” Martha said, sitting down at the table with her coffee. “I’ve heard so much about you.”

“It’s nice to meet you too.” Emily swallowed hard. “I hope it wasn’t too bad.”

Martha’s smile widened, and she didn’t equivocate.

“Not at all,” she said. “Luke has been most complimentary. He does have difficulty understanding Kaskade’s eccentricity though. I hoped someone would come on the summer solstice this year. Those of us who know about the time traveling always look forward to that day with excitement...and sometimes sadness if one of our new friends chooses to leave.”

Emily relaxed under Martha’s nurturing warmth. She liked her immediately. “What a lovely, welcoming thing to say.”

“Luke has been kind of warm and cold,” Leigh noted. “I doubt if Emily ever knows where she stands with him.”

Emily turned a surprised face to Leigh. “That’s true! I didn’t know you realized that.”

“It’s all over your face. You get this confused expression every time you’re around him, like you don’t know how he’s going to react any given minute. I don’t know how he’s going to react.”

Martha sighed. “I have never known Luke to behave that way. He’s always been so level headed, kind, thoughtful and gracious. Of all people, I would have expected an educated gentleman like Luke to manage Kaskade’s peculiarity with a more broad-minded view.”

Emily had no response. She didn’t have the benefit of knowing Luke pre–time travel.

“I would love for you to meet my brother, Jefferson, Emily. He is an attorney in town, and like me, he enjoys our visitors. He is at his office in town today though.”

“I would like that too,” Emily said.

“Oh yes, you definitely want to meet Jefferson. He’s very handsome!” Leigh chuckled.

“Leigh!” Emily protested.

Martha laughed. “All the girls love Jefferson, Emily. I do not

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