House For Sale Navy SEAL Included by Cora Seton

Author:Cora Seton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781988896595
Publisher: One Acre Press
Published: 2022-05-20T00:00:00+00:00

“Hi, Mom, it’s me. I’ve got a new number,” Amanda said two days later as she sat in Carter’s truck outside Carmichael Realty. She’d put off this call as long as possible, since she didn’t want to explain everything that had happened since the last time they talked, but if she waited any longer, her mother would try to call her and panic when she couldn’t get through to her old number. At least here in town, neither Carter nor his brothers could overhear her conversation. The truck doors were locked and the windows barely cracked. Amanda scanned the street again. It seemed impossible that Buck could have traced her this far, but she wanted to be careful.

She’d already stopped and bought an air mattress for Carter. After her meeting with Megan, she planned to grab a few groceries and check the mailbox before returning to the Ridge. She hadn’t made any progress figuring out what to do with the painting. Alone in the library on Saturday afternoon, she’d done some research online but had come up empty on ideas. She’d spent all of Sunday painting the other two bedrooms in number twenty-three. Carter said he’d finish the master bedroom soon and then the second story would be done.

“Hi, honey. Thanks for letting me know. I’ll save it to my contacts. What are you up to today?”

Amanda was grateful her mother accepted the news without concern and didn’t press her for explanations. Sooner or later she’d need to confess she’d taken her father in and been dragged into the middle of a crime, but she wasn’t ready for that yet.

“Just running some errands. What are you doing?”

“Heading out to lunch.”

“Where are you going to eat?” Normally her mother stayed at her desk on workdays, claiming she was much too busy to leave it. Amanda knew it was an excuse. Years ago, her mother had been active in many facets of their community in Dallas, but she’d kept a low profile since moving to Houston, just like Amanda had done before coming here.

“One of the neighbor ladies invited me to try a new place.”

“Really?” Amanda tried not to sound too surprised. Since when did her mother talk to her neighbors? “What type of food does it serve?”

“Vietnamese. Linda says it’s wonderful.”

“How did you two meet?” It was getting warm in the truck’s cab. Amanda wished she’d found a shadier place to park.

“I was washing my front windows one day, and she stopped to talk to me. She lives at the Eastman.”

Amanda tried to picture that meeting. Had her mother been pleasantly surprised, or had she felt overexposed, the way Amanda used to when someone new tried to strike up a friendship? The Eastman was a condo complex a couple of blocks away from her mother’s small house.

“She invited me to join her book club. Now we get together every week to do something.”

Book club? Amanda blinked. Was this her mother? “I didn’t know you joined a book club.”

“What else am I supposed to do when neither of my daughters live near me?” her mother asked defensively.

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