Sweet Rose: Baytown Boys by Maryann Jordan

Author:Maryann Jordan [Jordan, Maryann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-16T18:30:00+00:00

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While Jason was at his tattoo shop, Rose reveled in the fact that she had familiar furniture in her apartment, and it felt so much more like home. She had planned on spending the evening putting everything away, but with her friends’ help during the day, almost everything had been accomplished.

She sat on her sofa with the wooden chest on the coffee table and more letters scattered about. She had received a phone call from Mona earlier telling her that she discovered Charles and Millicent Carson did live in Baytown and worked in a shop just off of Main Street. It appeared they also lived over the shop.

At that news, Rose had done a happy dance around her living room, now knowing that the couple lived and worked in the very same building that she was now occupying. Mona had also told her that they ran a dry goods shop. That did not surprise Rose because Charles had made reference to material, thread, yarn, and had even mentioned hat materials.

The idea that Millicent would be working in the shop below, greeting town women as they came in to purchase their material and sewing supplies made her smile. Thinking of her running the store mostly by herself since Charles was away gave her a sense of camaraderie with the woman who lived there over a century ago.

Glancing out the window, she watched as Callan, Zac, and Scott entered Jason’s shop, and she smiled. She had watched a female client going in earlier, stopping just outside the door to adjust her clothing, which included hiking up her skirt and tugging down her shirt. Rose had just rolled her eyes and then grinned when later the woman stomped out, her face in an ugly grimace.

Glad that Jason’s friends were coming by, she turned back to the letter she was studying. It seemed that Charles was giving instructions to Millicent in the case of a storm. Rose knew that hurricanes could impact the Eastern Shore and had never considered what it might have been like in the late 1800s. But there was one word she could not determine.

In case of a storm, if there is great wind then do not take yourself to the letter…

“Letter?” she wondered aloud, nibbling on a fingernail as she tried to decipher what he meant. “He can’t mean ‘letter’.” The curly cues of his script made it difficult to discern what word he was actually writing. She tried to think of other words…better, teller, maybe shelter?

I know you would be frightened and that is where you would want to go, but if the rains bring the Bay to you, the letter would not be safe. It could fill with water…

Laying the paper on her lap, she huffed, glancing out her window toward Jason’s shop, which was so similar to hers. A first-floor shop with living quarters on the second floor. Her attention was snagged as she watched Jason and his friends walk out of the shop. He waved to the others before heading across the street toward her.

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