Mountain Country Courtship by Glynna Kaye

Author:Glynna Kaye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-10T21:16:37+00:00

Chapter Nine

“Reba won’t do half as good a job as you’d do,” Aunt Viola assured her niece as Lillian poured three glasses of lemonade in preparation for lunch with Denny.

She’d thought he’d be here by now, knowing how quickly a lunch hour flew by.

“So don’t be concerned,” her aunt continued, “that she’s real competition for the position.”

It was now fact rather than rumor that Reba Clancy intended to apply. But the timing stank. What chance did she have of landing the job now that the other woman’s return was imminent?

“But she’s a widowed former local girl,” Lillian reminded her aunt as she put the pitcher back in the refrigerator. “With Reba growing up here and everyone knowing her family, that will count for something with the library advisory board.”

And Reba didn’t publicly dump the grandson of one of those board members.

Aunt Vi snorted, not something that the well-mannered former librarian was often given to doing. “As I recall, she couldn’t wait to ditch this town as soon as they handed her that high-school diploma. Now that her daughter and son-in-law moved here to get away from the Mile-High City, she suddenly finds our community hits the spot.”

“I can understand the appeal.”

“Well, you deserve the job and I think I should have something to say about it since I held down the fort for decades.”

While Lillian appreciated her aunt’s vote of confidence, in reality Reba had considerably more experience than Lillian and was taking an extra-early retirement from a library in Denver to move closer so she could enjoy her grandkids. No doubt the position interested her as much as it did Lillian, and for the same reasons. She wanted to work and live in Hunter Ridge.

Lillian glanced at her aunt, who was now gazing thoughtfully out the window at the garden. Despite attempts to rally, the older woman’s spirits had faltered noticeably after learning for certain that Reba would be throwing her hat into the ring. Without the full-time position, could Lillian hope to keep her family in Hunter Ridge?

“Anybody home?”

Lillian had left the apartment door open, and Denny’s voice echoed from the front entry. The place was so quiet when Todd’s crew left the premises for their lunch break or at the end of a workday.

Denny appeared in the doorway. “Sorry I’m late. You wouldn’t believe the line at the grocery-store deli.” He set down the display boards, then held up three white bags. “I brought you something, too, Viola.”

“Aren’t you sweet.”

Lillian stood and gathered up the paint and wood stain samples she’d been sorting on the table. “Should we head outside? I need to be back at the library in forty-five minutes.”

“You two go on ahead.” Aunt Vi took one of the bags from Denny. “I need to call and check on a friend.”

“Once we narrow down the selections, you can give us your opinion,” Lillian assured her aunt with a concerned glance at her. Was she truly intending to place a phone call, or was she

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