Perfect Paige by Inés Saint

Author:Inés Saint [Saint, Inés]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Paige rushed out, her brain thinking up ways to explain the pretend-kiss to Grandma Sherry and company in a manner that would close the subject for good, when she almost ran smack into Agents Boyd and Hess. They were early. Alex would love that as much as he’d loved seeing Hope this morning. They exchanged a few words before the two men entered the café.

Paige slowed down. She still had forty-five minutes, and the lab testing facility was only fifteen minutes away.

“Paige! Wait up!” she heard behind her. When she looked back Marissa, Cassie, and Holly were waving for her to stop.

“You look like you’re in a rush, so we’ll make it quick,” Marissa was quick to say.

“Oh. It’s okay. I have a few minutes. I just wanted to—be early for my appointment.” What she’d wanted was to get the heck out of Grandma Sherry’s line of vision.

“Well, we wanted to talk to you, because we know how great you were at fund-raising events for the PTA over at your kids’ old school, and how you ran other fund-raisers, too, and we were wondering if you’d be willing to help us out,” Cassie began.

“We’ve got so much going on,” Holly explained. “Our PTA is trying to raise money for new technology for classrooms, the PTA at the school where Marissa teaches is just getting organized and they’d love ideas, our chamber of commerce is behind on planning for the town’s Christmas Festival, and Cassie here runs the Open Town event you and the kids came to in April.”

Paige began to nod, to agree, when two things hit her in quick succession. One, they were asking her to be a part of the community in a very big way, and she hadn’t had time to think that far ahead. Two, she’d like very much to be involved in all those things. Especially because it would mean working with the women standing in front of her. She’d always liked all three of them. Marissa and Cassie she’d known since they were children. She and Marissa had always commiserated on being granddaughters to Rosa and Sherry. Holly she’d met five years before, and they’d always gotten along great. Holly was Ruby’s granddaughter, so friendship had practically been built-in.

“I remember Riley loved the ghost tour that night,” Marissa added with a smile. “She couldn’t stop asking questions about the Ghostly Tenants of Spinning Hills.”

Ghostly Tenants of Spinning Hills. There it was again . . . except the memory she hadn’t been able to grab the other day floated to her then, from somewhere in the back of her brain.

The night of Spinning Hills’ Spring Open Town Event, Riley had been talking nonstop about Grandma Sherry’s ghost tour.

Glenn had been sullen and distracted when she and the kids had gotten home, but the ghost tour chatter had caught his attention and animated him. Hidden Bend had its own share of ghost stories, and Glenn had always been entertained by them. He’d even smiled and asked Paige to tell him all about the ghostly tenants.

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