Glass Hearts by Holly Jacobs

Author:Holly Jacobs [Jacobs, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ilex Books
Published: 2024-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Lee sold one necklace, a bracelet and a small driftwood sculpture by four the following Monday afternoon. She sat at the small work counter in the corner of the shop, sorting through stones, striving for her usual feeling of all’s right in the world.

Her last customer had bought one of Lee’s favorite blue-and-green bracelets. She was a new repeat customer who had discovered Singer’s Treasures a few months ago. Since then, she’d stopped in frequently for gifts for friends, and for herself. She was the type of customer who kept Singer’s Treasures going.

Lee kept sorting. She was looking for bits of glass whose color and sizes matched, or complemented each other. This was part of the art of crafting jewelry—the part she loved. The bins of glass were like jigsaw pieces. She combed through them until she found just the right grouping. When she finally put enough pieces together and could see the finished product in her mind’s eye, it was a eureka moment that always left her feeling euphoric.

She was hoping for a spurt of that euphoria because, at the moment, her predominant emotion was confusion. Wondering what to do about her mother’s sudden interest in her. She wanted to trust it, to revel in it, but this change of roles made her feel uneasy.

The quiet life she’d so carefully crafted over the last year was in a state of flux. It left her feeling unsettled. She kept hoping the glass sorting would help. It normally did. But today it hadn’t so far.

The door opened and Adam walked in without a baby stroller, or baby, for that matter.

They’d spent most of the weekend together with Jessie. They’d gone out to the peninsula and seen the new tourist center, like her mother had suggested. They’d even gone with her mom and dad to play miniature golf on Sunday night. Jessie had been enamored with the plastic putter. She’d hit everything but the golf ball, and Lee hadn’t analyzed or worried, she’d just enjoyed.

Enjoyed a night out with her parents and Adam, her childhood nemesis. Who’d have ever thought?

Not her.

But as Adam approached without the baby, she felt a spurt of concern. “Where’s Jessie?”

His smile put her at ease…at least, at ease over the baby’s safety. “No hi Adam? No nice to see you, Adam? No—”

She couldn’t help but allow a grin herself. “Okay. Hi, Adam. It’s so nice to see you. Now, where’s Jessie?”

“Your mom and dad borrowed her.”

“What?” Her earlier confusion over her parents reasserted itself. What on earth was up with her business-is-life mother and father? Offering to babysit? It was just too…

She couldn’t come up with a good description of what it was, but it was unsettling.

“Your mom asked if they could watch her, then suggested since I was free, I come get you and take you out. Just the two us. Alone. An adult thing.”

“An adult thing?” Lee asked. “That’s what they call it these days? I’m so out of touch with the adult-thing scene.”

“A date,” he corrected.

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