Godmothers 1 - The Scoop by Fern Michaels

Author:Fern Michaels
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780758227188
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2009-08-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 19

For the first time in years, Toots didn’t feel like eating her morning bowl of Froot Loops. Sitting on the terrace overlooking the colorful plant-filled lawn and watching the sunrise was so peaceful. She loved hearing the various birds as they cawed to one another, just like back home. But the early-morning magic wasn’t working that morning. She wondered if it would ever work for her again. At that moment, all she wanted was an excuse to crawl back under the covers and forget her conversation with Chris.

Never a quitter, Toots squared her shoulders as she lit her fifth cigarette, and it was only six in the morning, which meant it was nine at home, so five smokes was right on her daily schedule. She’d barely slept a wink, and she knew it showed on her face. She had showered and dressed in a bright yellow skirt and orange blouse, hoping the sunshiny colors would brighten her dull mood, but as yet, they hadn’t done a damn thing but depress her. Sophie, Mavis, and Ida, or so she hoped for the latter, were due for breakfast at seven. Toots wanted to remain cheerful and positive for her friends, who were all going through crises of their own. More than anything, she didn’t want them to discover she’d been taken for a fool. An old widow fooled by some computer-savvy jerk who was laughing at her. All the way to the bank.

Well, she might be old, but she sure as hell wasn’t a fossil, and she was a widow many times over, so what? Maybe she wasn’t as computer-savvy as some, but she could maneuver her way around a laptop as well as anyone else her age. What she couldn’t tolerate was the thought of some schmuck like Tod, or whatever the hell his name was, laughing at her behind her back. That was incomprehensible and damn well unacceptable. Call it pride or an old woman getting pissed to the teeth. Either way, she intended to find out who was behind the loss of her ten million dollars, and when she did find out, she was personally going to make his life a living hell. There was the money factor, for sure, but in her heart of hearts she knew it truly wasn’t about the money, even though it was about the money. It wasn’t even the fact that she could very well lose the opportunity to run her own tabloid, although that was going to sting big-time. It was Abby. As a mother, she would do whatever it took, albeit on the sly or not, to make sure Abby was happy. And working elsewhere just wasn’t going to cut it for her daughter. So, as her mother, the sucker who’d paid triple what the paper was worth, she intended to do something about it.

A light tap on the patio window jarred her from further plotting the downfall of her newfound yet unknown enemy.

Sophie, wearing her old plaid robe, stood inside Toots’s bungalow with a mug of coffee in her hand and an unlit cigarette in the other.

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