Laura's Shadow by Allison Pittman

Author:Allison Pittman [Pittman, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781636093512
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2022-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

TRIXIE

Trixie tucked the book under one of the window seat’s pillows, and after a quick check to see that GG was still sleeping, ran down the stairs and out the front door, meeting her mother at the foot of the front steps.

“Where’s my car?”

“See?” Eugenie said. “I told you she’d have a fit straight off.”

“I’m not having a fit,” Trixie said. “Why should I be having a fit?”

“Calm down,” her mother said. “Think about the child.” This she said out of the corner of her mouth.

Samantha poked half of her body through the open car window. “Is she having a fit?”

“Everything’s going to be fine, darling,” Alma said, though Trixie couldn’t tell if the reassurance was meant for her or the six-year-old.

“What’s going to be fine, Mom?”

“Justus McCready said it happens all the time and wasn’t anybody’s fault.”

“Justus McCready?”

“Mechanic,” Grandma said. She walked up the steps, straight past Alma and Trixie. “Said it was the starter. Just went out.” She punctuated her statement with the closing of the screen door, never looking back.

Her head still floating with disjointed pieces, Trixie once again focused on her mother.

Alma sighed. “We got in the car after church, and it wouldn’t start. Dead. Not even a click. Mr. McCready was right there. He gave it a look over and—whatever Mother said. He’s being kind enough to order the part today but won’t be able to start work until tomorrow. Which is still incredibly generous of him. He’s not even charging for the tow.”

Listening to her mother, Trixie could only imagine the flirtatious edge of the conversation in the church parking lot. Still, “My car got towed?”

“Well, it couldn’t very well sit in the church parking lot overnight, could it?”

She closed her eyes and bit back a retort as her mother too walked past her into the house. Up to this moment, Cam’s engine had been running, but he cut it and stepped out of the car, admonishing Samantha to sit back down and wait, just for a minute.

Trixie stepped off the porch and met him halfway in the yard. “Thanks for bringing them home.”

“It’s not a problem.”

“It’s a twenty-minute drive.”

“Which is not a problem.”

She looked over his shoulder to see Samantha bouncing on the car seat. “I guess this means I won’t be able to join you for your picnic.”

Cam opened his arms in broad invitation. “Come with us now.”

“I really shouldn’t.” She didn’t have the heart to tell him that she hadn’t given the idea a second thought since the moment he left. “I’ve learned something new about GG. Something about her past, and I’m hoping she’ll tell me more. If she has a few good hours, if she’s lucid and wants to talk, I want to be here.”

“I understand completely,” he said, and she knew that he did.

“But my offer still stands if you want to have lunch here. We’re roasting a chicken, but if Samantha has her heart set on pimiento cheese sandwiches, I can make those too. And I

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