Lavender Morning by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2008-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

“I haven’t figured that out yet, but if I come up with something, I’ll let you know.”

“What about Luke? Maybe you two could—”

“We’d kill each other in the first week. He likes to work alone.”

“But he can’t make much money at gardening. I’m no Realtor, but that house of his looked as though it cost a dollar or two.”

“He just needs time to lick his wounds,” Jim said as he got out of the truck. “He’ll be fine.

He likes you a lot, I know that. I haven’t seen him less miserable in a long time.”

Jocelyn sat in the truck and watched Jim as he went into her house. Miserable? What was Luke unhappy about? He’d never seemed “miserable” to her.

In the next minute the red-haired woman who’d been at her door the day before came out, opened the trunk of her car, and pulled out a huge mixer. Joce jumped out of Luke’s pickup. “Let me help you with that.” She slipped her arm under the top of it, then took the other box the woman handed her.

“I met you at church, but I’m sure you don’t remember me. I’m Mavis—”

“Ken’s mother.”

“That’s right,” she said, pleased. “Where have you and Jim been?”

“Buying things. They should be here tomorrow.”

“Ha! If I know Jim Connor, they’ll be here any minute. There’s a man in there disconnecting the gas lines already. Are you really going to open a cupcake store in Edilean and sell all over the U.S. by mail order?”

Jocelyn took a moment to digest that. “No. I can’t think of anything I’d less like to do than bake cupcakes for the rest of my life. Actually, I’m thinking of writing a history of Edilean. I’ve heard so many delicious secrets that I thought I’d share them with the world.”

Mavis gave Jocelyn a weak smile, then hurriedly started for the house. “If I were you, I wouldn’t tell anyone that or you might find arsenic in your own cupcake,” she said over her shoulder.

Joce followed her into the house. Interesting, she thought. She’d certainly hit a nerve with that remark.

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