Her Property (Jewel Lakes Series Book One): A Steamy Lake Side Romance by Claire Wilder

Author:Claire Wilder [Wilder, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

After hoisting the ladder back up on the wall, Jake picked up the paint and made his way back to Cabin Three. Maybe he’d be able to get at least one cabin done before the rain hit.

But as he popped open the can of paint his anger began to flare.

He couldn’t keep this up.

Jake dipped his roller into his paint tray, his movements hard enough to splash paint on the brown grass. Why the hell couldn’t Alfred leave well enough alone? Why did he have this enduring hate for Jake and his family?

He rolled a section of paint onto the wall. Then another. It didn’t matter why Alfred hated him. He would probably never stop. But Jake didn’t need Alfred to like him. He just needed him to back off. All Jake wanted to do was do right by James. He needed to get this camp going. It was the only way he could make things right.

For the second time that day, Jake had an uninvited thought about his mother. She’d tried to make things right with him, after James had died. He’d told her to get lost. Not in so many words, but he’d wanted nothing to do with her.

After she’d left him and James behind, she’d disappeared for a whole year, coming back a few days before Christmas to give him and James their mediocre gifts. She’d given James a pair of slippers two sizes too small. Jake had gotten a baseball, despite the fact that he had zero interest in playing. She didn’t even know he’d been doing track at school; that he held the record for the eighth grade high jump and shot-put. He didn’t know why he’d been devastated she didn’t know that. She hardly knew anything about her own sons when they lived with her.

She’d passed the year after James. Gramps had gone next. Jake had been worried back then that his grandmother might succumb to her broken heart, but it was her mind that began to go instead, as if that was the only way she could survive all her losses.

As he rolled paint onto the siding, he wondered if his mother were alive if she might have been able to give him some clues as to the origin of this feud. Gramps definitely would have been able to, but his grandparents had never wanted to talk about it. He’d flat out refused the one time Jake had asked him. Jake hadn’t pushed—it was only curiosity then. Now he wished he’d persisted.

He’d tried to ask Gran when Alfred served him with the lawsuit last month. But she’d gotten so confused, and then upset when he tried to ask again, that he’d given up. It was only as he was leaving that she said something mildly coherent—that it wasn’t his fault. Whatever had happened wasn’t about him. He’d wanted to ask her more but she drifted off again, asking him to remind her what his name was and why he was there again.

Whatever Gran knew was long gone, having slipped away like all the other bad memories.

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