Secrets of Forever by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-07-13T16:00:22+00:00

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Ellie went ahead and made her run, picking up some much needed supplies from a store located more than seventy-five miles away. The supplies were for Ramona Santiago Lone Wolf, the town’s vet.

Driving her ancient station wagon, Mona met Ellie in the open field located just behind her vet facility.

“I appreciate you getting these to me so quickly, Ellie,” Mona told her as she got out of her vehicle. “There are times when I really miss Doc Elliott,” she said, referring to the old town vet. “I never used to feel that I was operating without a net when he was around. He always seemed to know what to do, what to say. And I could lean on the man,” she said wistfully.

Ellie was unloading her plane, piling the supplies on top of one another. She knew exactly how Mona felt. She had the exact same feelings when it came to her grandfather.

“I guess that happens to everyone eventually. It’s the way of the world.” She smiled at the pretty veterinarian. “Old Doc Elliott must have been an endless source of information for you.”

“Oh, for everyone,” Mona agreed. “There wasn’t anything he didn’t know about animals. Not to mention that the man was also like the town historian. Do you know that he was the only one in Forever who could remember when Miss Joan first came to live here?”

Now that she thought of it, she had heard something to that effect. The woman was so much of a fixture in Forever, it seemed as if she had always lived there.

Ellie paused, trying to remember details.

“Wasn’t she married back then?” Ellie asked. “Something about a husband and a baby boy who both died in some sort of a natural disaster, or something like that? A flash flood, I think, was the way the story went.” As she talked, bits and pieces of details came back to her. “That’s why she was so closed off for so long and why it took Harry more than thirty years to convince her to marry him.

“That would almost be romantic if it wasn’t so sad,” Ellie commented. With a mighty effort, she deposited the last of the supplies from her plane onto the ground.

“If I remember it correctly, it wasn’t a flash flood, it was a car accident,” Mona told her. “Miss Joan’s husband was pretty much of a scoundrel and he ran off with Miss Joan’s sister. Zelda or Zoë or something like that,” she said, totally surprising Ellie. “Doc Elliott said that her husband took the baby because he was trying to get back at Miss Joan for giving him such a hard time. As if anyone would applaud a womanizer,” the woman said in disgust.

“And they were killed in a car accident?” Ellie asked, still attempting to absorb the information. In all the years she had lived in Forever, she had never heard this story. She was still a little doubtful about how true it was. Not that she didn’t believe Mona, but it just seemed so unusual that there was never any mention of it.

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