Love's Promise by Melissa Storm

Author:Melissa Storm [Storm, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Partridge & Pear Press

After dropping Tasha and Toto off at home, Jeffrey swung by the small pharmacy downtown known simply as Berkley’s. He always kept a key on hand in case he needed to stop by and grab something for his folks, but he rarely came around of his own volition.

The neon sign that hung above the storefront looked eerie without its normal luminescence. His father had bought that modern sign in a fancy script to celebrate Jeffrey’s four-year degree. He’d said the old painted sign had served them well, but now the time had come for something new, something fresh.

Oh, his father always tried so hard to make his dreams Jeffrey’s dreams, too. So why did Jeffrey keep on hemming and hawing all these years? Sure, he liked to cook, but everyone had to eat. It’s not as if leaving Mabel’s would mean never cooking again, and hadn’t Mabel told him just that day she could manage without him?

He parked his car and let himself into the empty building. How different it felt being here as opposed to the diner. While Mabel’s was warm, open, busy, the small pharmacy felt constrained and chilly. The rows and rows of pills, creams, and syrups looked stark in their plain white boxes with small print. Even the front counter was all wrong. It didn’t have the scratches and indents of many past meals well cooked, didn’t shine under the overhead lighting. Didn’t heat up, snap, or crack.

Plain, white. Boring.

But at the same time, this place paid for the roof over his head, paid for his education, would enable his parents to one day retire and travel the world as his mother had always wanted. His father had literally healed the sick, made people’s lives better in a very tangible way.

And who was Jeffrey to discount that? Who was he to deprive the townspeople of their healer? To break his father’s heart?

He didn’t know the answer to any of these questions, nor was he sure he trusted himself to make his own decisions any longer. Look where that had gotten him with Kristina Rose. Maybe his father was right about everything.

Maybe it was time to grow up and accept his destiny once and for all. With one last look toward the vacant window, he turned the key in the ignition and drove away.

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