Sugar's Twice as Sweet: Sugar, Georgia: Book 1 by Marina Adair

Author:Marina Adair [Adair, Marina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2014-11-24T23:00:00+00:00

Josephina stood on the forth rung of the ladder with a sheet of wallpaper over her head, a cutter in her left hand, and a scraper in her right. No matter how long she stood there or how many times she chanted balls-to-the-wall, she couldn’t gather the courage needed to crawl up one more rung.

Hands clammy, she sliced the wallpaper horizontally and watched it slip the whole five feet to the floor. She crawled down, then flopped into an overstuffed armchair, hating how her heart felt as if it was going to explode right out of her chest.

Her phone rang. Pulling it from her back pocket, she answered. “Hello?”

There was a tense silence, some heavy breaths, and teeth clicking as though someone was biting through fingernails, then, “Um, hey there, Miss Harrington?”

Josephina sat up. “Rooster? Are you all right? When you didn’t show up yesterday I got worried, then when you didn’t return my calls—”

“Yeah, about that.” The knot that had settled in the pit of her stomach yesterday tightened. “Seems I’ve got me some back problems and I don’t think I’ll be able to get out to your place for some time.”

Josephina rolled her eyes at how he emphasized the last two words, implying that Hattie would be crowned Miss Peach before he’d ever come back to her house.

“So by back problems, do you mean the weight of five overbearing and nagging grannies obliterated your spine completely?”

Rooster stuttered and gasped for so long, Josephina almost felt sorry for the guy.

“Look, don’t worry, Rooster. I get it. I’ll send you a check for the work you already completed.”

He mumbled some apology and they hung up. With a weary sigh she leaned back and took in what she’d spent three and a half hours accomplishing. The wall looked like the rest of the room, bare plaster up to her head and dusty roses spanning the remaining fifteen feet of the wall.

Josephina sighed. This was what happened when one’s contractor went MIA, then up and quit, forcing one to make do with limited demolition skills.

She closed her eyes and laid her head back. After four years of interior design school and three more spent in the field, Josephina Harrington couldn’t manage to take down wallpaper.

Accepting defeat—for now—she walked over to Kenny, pulled back his head, and took a handful of candy corn. Last week, she’d wisely replaced the poker chips with corn syrup, carnauba wax, and yellow dye number 5. She shoved them into her mouth and savored the sanity the sweetness brought.

Licking her fingers, she scrolled through her contacts. She had already expanded her knowledge of construction, but unless she found a book on how to install window flashing with a chapter on overcoming vertigo, Josephina needed to find another handyman. She had told the bank she’d be up and running by summer’s end—meaning she had a lot of work to do.

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