Love on the Rocks: A Heartswell Harbour Romance by Mavis Williams

Author:Mavis Williams [Williams, Mavis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

Actually, it wasn’t so much a scream, as a holler.

A holler of pain.

The kind of holler an elderly person might make if they had, perhaps, fallen into a hole. In a soccer field. In their pajamas.

To her shame, Lucy thought about creeping back inside the school, but to her credit she instead followed Dog quickly around the corner of the school to the edge of the soccer field where the T’ai Chi-ers were gathered in a flowy, gauzy, meditative circle around a woman sitting on the ground.

As Lucy approached, she could see the hole… the several holes… that she had dug the other night. Vicious traps awaiting unsuspecting victims.

“I have no idea.” A man with silver hair was squatting by the hole. “Could be gophers, I suppose?”

The seated woman groaned softly as another woman lifted her foot gently, squinting at her ankle and shaking her head. “I’d say that’s a pretty bad sprain, Louanne. How you feeling?”

Louanne didn’t seem to be feeling too well. She was probably past seventy and had just been trapped in a gopher hole. Lucy wanted to wrap her in bandages and tuck her into an ambulance.

“Hello,” she said, as a dozen grey heads turned her way. Lucy loved old people. She wished they would all adopt her… but she doubted that would happen now that she had tried to kill one of them. “I’m Lucy…um… of the School…”

“You just locked the door on us, didn’t you?” foot-holding woman said. She didn’t sound angry, just curious.

“No, I … um… let me help.” Lucy squatted beside Louanne and put her hand lightly on her shoulder. “Those damn gophers… they’re a real menace…”

“Do we need an ambulance, do you think?” someone asked.

“Did anyone call 911?” another voice said.

Louanne waved a hand in the air, dismissively. “Don’t be silly,” she said. She wasn’t as Irish as Mumsy, but there was a lilt of an accent under her words. “I just need to get up and walk it off.”

Lucy would have been very happy for all of them to get up and start walking, straight to their cars, and then straight out of her life, but judging by the bulge of purple bruise rising on Louanne’s ankle, she was stuck with them for the time being.

“Louanne… may I call you Louanne?” Lucy began. “Stay here. I’m going to go get you something so you’re more comfortable, and then I’m going to call my friend to come and take a look at you. Is that all right?”

As Louanne nodded and the other elders relaxed, Lucy dashed back to the school. She grabbed her phone and called Ruby while she rummaged around in the gym, looking for the gym mats she knew must be hiding there somewhere.

“Ruby!”

“Lu? What’s wrong?”

Lucy swore she could smell pastry every time she talked to Ruby on the phone.

“I need Sven. I need muscles. These people are all far too old.” She continued tossing aside old boxes and deflated basketballs until she spied a soft blue mat. “Eureka! Perfect!”

“Lucy.

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