Raising Hell by Shannon West

Author:Shannon West [West, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Painted Hearts Publishing
Published: 2020-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

I pulled my phone from my back pocket and started to look through my contacts.

“Oh, stop looking for the number to my doctor. I can explain.”

I sat down at the table and stopped scrolling, but I kept the phone in my hand. “Okay, go ahead.”

Gran glanced over at Rose nervously and then took off her robe and flopped down on the sofa. She looked suddenly very old and tired.

“Gran, are you okay? Do you need some water or something?”

“No, I’m fine. I’m just trying to figure out the best way to explain this. Rose, you start while I gather my thoughts.”

Rose smiled and patted my knee as she took a seat next to me.

“That was awesome, by the way,” I told her. “The way you told Nick it was none of his business.”

She waved her hand. “I taught Nick Moody in high school. Both of you for that matter. He was always a sweet boy but he could get a little bossy. He was so popular with the other students, you know, that it gave him the big head. Football player and all. I’m sure you remember. But he knows better than to try and pull that stuff on me the way he’s been doing. I decided it was time to put a stop to it.”

“Yes, ma’am.” I grinned, and she sniffed.

“Okay, let’s see now. How to start explaining? See, this all started back in 1983.”

“Oh Lord,” I said, dropping my head in my hands again.

“Patience, dear. I’m telling you, but I have to do it my own way, and it’s a long story. Now where was I? Yes, 1983. Emma Mae Millican went to a big flea market out on Highway 9. We used to go all the time and buy fruit and fresh vegetables and well, all manner of things, but I was busy that day and couldn’t go with her. Anyway, Emma Mae loved old books, especially romance novels and cookbooks. Her favorite place to buy them was at the flea market. She’d buy them by the boxful if she could find them. So on this day, she found an old man selling books, and she rambled around through his boxes. They were dusty and old, and he said he got some of them when he cleaned out a neighbor’s barn. He asked her what she was looking for and she told him cookbooks, and he pulled this old, tattered book from the bottom of the box and said, ‘Here. I think this one has recipes, and it’s real old. Almost falling apart.’

“Well, there were some Barbara Cartland books in that box too, so Emma Mae took the whole bunch. Later that night, when she got home, she started looking through them and found the old, raggedy book the vendor had shown her and saw that what she had wasn’t really a cook book at all. Or not exactly.”

“Now here is the amazing part. It turned out that what she had was a book that used to be in our family.

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