No Return Address by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Author:Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459818606
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2018-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

SEVEN

WHEN CODY AND I arrived at Lisa’s door, she immediately hugged my son. “I wonder if you can do me a favor,” she asked him. “There’s a guitar case in the attic. Can you grab it for me?” Cody nodded and ran up the stairs. “It’s just inside the attic door,” Lisa called after him. “The light switch is on the right.” Then she turned back to me, her eyes sparkling.

“What are you up to?” I asked.

“Come in!” She closed the door behind me and led me to the kitchen. We both sat at the table. “A month before Meg died she called me over and insisted I take her guitar. I had never learned how to play. I wasn’t interested. So, I put the guitar in the attic, and it’s been collecting dust ever since.”

My son bounded back down the stairs, carrying the guitar case. He slid it onto the kitchen counter to open it. There was a beautiful guitar inside.

Lisa pulled a letter from her pocket and waved it at me. “Then I got this letter from your mother this morning.” She turned to Cody. “Meg wanted you to have this guitar,” she said. “She asked me to give it to you.”

Cody’s face lit up. “Are you serious?” he asked. “It’s a high-end Gibson. You know how expensive these guitars are?” He lifted the guitar from the case. “I can really keep this?”

“It’s yours! Just take it outside to play right now, okay? I’d like to have a quick chat with your mother.”

We both watched Cody carry the guitar through the sliding glass doors to the deck. He spent several minutes tuning the guitar and then started to play.

“Your mother had another, bigger favor to ask of me,” Lisa told me. “But I want to see what you think before I agree to it.” She hesitated before handing me the letter from my mother. I read it.

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