No Quick Fix: Torus Intercession Book One by Mary Calmes

Author:Mary Calmes [Calmes, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mary Calmes Books, LLC.
Published: 2019-03-18T18:30:00+00:00

Olivia called me when I was on my way home, having left Jenny Rubio with more people than she actually needed, and asked me to please come to the craft fair and pick her up because she wanted to go home but her father was stuck there and couldn’t leave.

“It’s all junk, Brann. I wanna come home and play with you.”

“Does your father know you’re calling me?”

“Yeah,” she said like I was an idiot. “’Course. I’m using his phone.”

“And where is he?”

“He’s looking at metal suns with Lydia.”

“I have no idea what that is.”

“Well, come see, then. It’s really lame.”

“You’re supposed to be spending time with your father and Lydia and your sister. I don’t want to interrupt family time.”

“It’s not family time if you’re not here; don’t be dumb.”

Her telling me I was part of her family only gave me a small heart attack. It didn’t kill me outright like I thought it would. Stupid kid making me have stupid feelings about things I couldn’t have. It was annoying as hell.

“Don’t you have to paint the flag of Argentina?” I reminded her.

“Oh, yeah,” she said, less than thrilled. “I forgot I told you about that.”

I chuckled because I could just imagine her little scrunched-up face. “I’ll see you guys at home later.”

“No,” she whined. “Come now.”

“I don’t—”

“Daddy!” she yelled into the phone, which nearly took out my right eardrum. “Talk to Brann and tell him to come get me.”

I was going to reiterate that I would see her back at the house, but then there was his voice, all silvery and rumbling on the other end of the line.

“Brann?”

“Hey, sorry about her calling me. You shouldn’t have let her have the—”

“Are you done visiting with the sheriff?”

“How did you know I was—”

“I saw you drive by in the patrol car a little while ago. I waved, but you didn’t see me.”

“I’m sorry. I was probably still reeling from having Mrs. Velazquez hit on me.”

He laughed and it rolled through me, warming me up all over and especially in places that were not helping me want to go back to Chicago anytime soon. Thinking sinful thoughts about a man who was about to get married was ten kinds of stupid.

“Every time she sees me, she tells me to leave Lydia,” he said, chuckling. “And her pumpkin cheesecake is amazing. I think she uses it as bait.”

“Yeah, I got offered the same thing.”

“Well, of course you did. I’d offer you pie myself.”

I would take whatever he offered in a heartbeat. “So,” I said, gulping around my rapidly closing throat, my voice a raspy whisper, “where are you?”

“We’re looking at metal sculptures toward the back. Olivia’s about to go catatonic, and April is walking around with her friend Lucy and her mother and a couple of other girls.”

“Okay then, is it all right if I come and get my girl, because she does actually need to color the map of Argentina and explain to her class about one great export, besides Lionel Messi, that the country has.

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