His Uptown Girl by Gail Sattler

Author:Gail Sattler
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2005-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Bob parked his car on the cement pad beside the garage where he always parked, but today he looked at it from a different perspective.

There was a second vehicle parked here.

George’s.

By now, George was probably nearly finished making his garage into her home.

He grabbed the bag with the two burgers he’d picked up at the drive-through on his way home, and slid out of the car. As he did, Bart’s words of caution came back to haunt him.

Earlier, when he got back to the shop, he’d had a long talk with Bart. Bart had reminded him that it wasn’t a great idea to have their employee living on his property. Bob had agreed, but he couldn’t put her out on the street. George was a Christian sister who needed help, and he had the means to provide it. This also changed everything about their relationship, the parameters of which he still hadn’t fully considered.

He pushed the car door closed and started walking toward the garage. Now that she was living closer than next door, he wondered if she would be attending church with him in the morning; he wanted her to be there with him. So far she’d been attending the evening services, but he thought she’d been continuing to attend at her home church for the morning services, though someone had mentioned to him they’d seen her at his church. Now that she was so close, things could be different. However, he wasn’t sure that would be wise. In his current position, he should have been setting firm lines to distance himself. Instead, the lines were becoming more fuzzy. Yet, he couldn’t not take her if she asked, even if the only reason to go to his church, the closer one, was because she didn’t have any money for gas.

As he approached the side door, he noticed that it was wide open. When he stepped into the opening, the scent of pine cleaner was so strong it made his eyes water.

Bob stepped back to give himself some air.

“George?”

She didn’t reply, but he could hear splashing coming from the bathroom, as well as the noise of the fan. Since the bathroom door was also wide open, he considered it safe to continue inside.

The closer he got, the stronger the onslaught of pine became, until his eyes wouldn’t stop watering. He swiped his eyes with the back of his hand, and stepped into the opening for the bathroom.

He found George wringing out the sponge in the bathroom sink.

“What are you doing in here?”

“I’m finally done. What do you think?”

He blinked repeatedly, but his eyes still burned. “It looks good, but I think the smell of the cleaner is a bit overpowering.”

“The label said it would make everything fresh and clean. It’s antibacterial.”

Bob swiped his hand over his eyes again, and resisted the urge to cough. “That could be, but I think you used a little too much.”

George looked up at him, her eyes as red as his felt. “The label said to use full strength on bathroom fixtures, and then diluted on wood and painted surfaces.

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