Harlequin Intrigue February 2021--Box Set 1 of 2 by Nicole Helm

Author:Nicole Helm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

The drive to Mrs. Blair’s house a couple miles out of town from the ranch took thirty minutes. It was noon when Aubrey pulled up in front of her patient’s home and killed the engine.

“Let me check with her to see if she’s up for visitors.” Aubrey got out of the Jeep and carried her satchel up to the house. After a brief knock she heard Mrs. Blair call out, “Come in, Aubrey.”

Mrs. Blair was up with her walker, moving slowly toward the kitchen.

Aubrey smiled. “Look at you, getting around on your own.”

“I decided it was time I got back in shape. I’m thinking of competing in one of those Iron Woman competitions. She pulled two cups from a cabinet and set them on the counter. “Do they have categories that go up to my age?”

“Actually, they do. You’re not that old. You just have some challenges to overcome.”

“I’ve decided you’re right. And I’m ready to overcome them and rejoin the human race. Only in my case, the human walkathon. The Iron Woman race might be a little out of my league.”

“Baby steps, Mrs. Blair. You’ll get there with baby steps.”

The older woman shook her head. “I shouldn’t be this crippled at my age. I’m not even eighty yet. I’ve got a lot of years left in me. Did you know my mother lived to be ninety-nine and three-quarters?”

“I did not know that,” Aubrey said, pulling her blood pressure cuff out of her satchel.

“She died a couple months short of her one hundredth birthday. She fell and broke her hip, was laid up and got pneumonia. And I had high hopes of drinking a beer with her at her birthday party.”

“All the more reason to get back to normal. You can’t have a beer while on some of this medication. Especially the pain relievers,” Aubrey said.

“That’s good, because I haven’t been taking them. Figured it was time to pull up my big girl panties and make this new hip work for me.”

Aubrey glanced out the window at her Jeep. “Mrs. Blair, how are you for company today?”

“I’m great. I’ve got you.”

“I mean for more than me,” Aubrey said.

Mrs. Blair’s white brows rose. “You got someone in mind?”

“As a matter of fact, I have someone waiting in my Jeep. He said he was a student of yours and that you’d remember him.”

Mrs. Blair grimaced. “I had so many students—they blur in my mind.”

“That’s what I told him.” Aubrey laughed. “He said you’d remember him. He was teacher’s pet.”

“The only teacher’s pet I remember was that Hennessey kid. He liked to think he was a badass, but I saw right through him. He was one of the kindest young men I ever had the pleasure of teaching history.”

“Guess I’ll be eating my words today,” Aubrey said with a grin. “The person out in my Jeep is Matthew Hennessey, your number one teacher’s pet.”

“You’re not pulling this old woman’s leg, are you?” She aimed her walker toward the front of the house, her gaze on the Jeep.

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