Rocky Mountain Reunion by Tina Radcliffe

Author:Tina Radcliffe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Are you sure you’re going to be okay with me coming in late, Marta?” Anne asked into her cell phone.

“Anne, really, we’re good. I’m sort of excited that you’re coming in late.”

“Now you sound like Juanita,” Anne muttered.

“Ha! No worries. And remember, we’ve got those nursing students today, so we have extra staff if we need them.”

“I don’t know, sometimes having too many untrained hands can be worse than being short-staffed.”

“Juanita loves putting them to work. It will be fine.”

“Okay, I’m going to leave them to you.” She paused. “Thank you. Please say a prayer that I can get in to see the mayor. This is my last shot until the meeting tonight.”

“I thought you had an appointment at his office.”

“Not exactly. I’ve tried twice, but his secretary keeps stalling, telling me he’ll talk to me before the town hall meeting, which is a terrible idea. He’ll be distracted then.”

“So, where are you?”

Anne glanced across the street at the town hall building. “I’m sitting in my car right now waiting for someone to show up at his office.”

“So your plan is to bluster your way in?”

She shrugged, though she knew Marta couldn’t see her frustration. “Basically.”

“He lives down the street from me. Goodness, if I had known, we could have stopped by his house. He mows his lawn on Saturday mornings. We could have casually walked by with a big glass of chilled lemonade and some of Patti Jo’s cookies. That would have done the trick.”

“Casually bribe the mayor?” A laugh burst from her lips. “Is that what you’re suggesting?”

“Your aunt would call it being a savvy businesswoman.”

Anne laughed again. “I agree. Which is why I already picked up a bag of cookies.”

“Smart move, though you know that none of this would be necessary if you’d simply ask Matt about the house. He’s building the road, after all, so he must have some insight into why they chose to build it right in the middle of your house.”

“I can handle this myself.”

“Of course you can. You take care of everything yourself, but it couldn’t hurt to ask him.”

“We don’t have that kind of relationship.”

“You see him often enough, thanks to Claire. It seems to me that you don’t have to have a relationship to ask him a question.”

Anne took a deep breath. “What I’m saying is that he’s only the contractor. The town made the decision. I’m only going to see the mayor to see why, and to possibly persuade them to build their road elsewhere.” She paused. “Besides, I don’t want to get Matt involved in my personal problems. Boundaries are very important.”

“I think he’s already involved.”

Marta’s words made her pause. It was as though she could read her mind or at least her intentions.

As though she, too, had heard Matt’s words on Saturday. Sometimes God uses His people to help each other, he’d said.

“And I believe in boundaries as long as they aren’t really fences created by fear,” Marta continued.

“Marta.”

“Fine, but you know I’m absolutely an I-told-you-so person and eventually I will tell you that I told you so.

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