The Aura Answer by Patricia Rice
Author:Patricia Rice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book View Cafe
Seventeen
With Christmas music blaring, baking aromas filling the air, and the children bouncing like crickets, Gracie gave up on writing. Joining in the holiday spirit, she helped Loretta swathe the staircase with fake evergreen boughs they found in the attic. Aster and the twins âhelpedâ by pulling off old tinsel and relocating it to the Christmas tree.
âIs this the lead kind of tinsel?â Loretta whispered as shiny shreds fell on the stairs and the hall below.
âLead? Thereâs lead in tinsel?â Alarmed, Gracie studied the mess they were making. âIs that why they quit making it?â
Loretta nodded solemnly. âThis is really old garland.â
âLike everything else in here.â With a sigh, she began scooping up the threads and pulling them off before the kids could make any more depredations. âOur parents survived lead tinsel. . . Although maybe theyâd have been a lot smarter if they hadnât inhaled the dust.â
Pris appeared in the hallway below. âSoupâs on. Someone want to take some out to that poor idiot freezing in the garage?â
Nick had been out there framing sketches all morning. Gracie didnât know what to make of the man, but heâd already carried the requested picture down to her motherâs Psychic Solutions shop. She thought Reuben had printed business cards for him so he could install one in the frame. She wasnât certain why heâd do that.
For now, she assumed he was avoiding the high octane excitement building in the house as presents grew under the tree, and the kids shrieked and bounced off walls.
âIâll do it,â she offered, not out of generosity, but because she wanted something. That made it all right, didnât it? She wasnât interested in him or anything, except as a partner in crime. He seemed to understand her need to help.
She untangled Alex, Nan, and Aster from the tree, helped them clean up, and led them into the kitchen where Loretta was already presiding over the breakfast nook. Pris had Dante pounding out his frustration on bread dough. The archeologist was almost healed and stewing in frustration at his inability to start the dig on the twinsâ newly inherited farm. Apparently permits and grants and legal whatnot were needed before he could proceed.
Leaving the children in their hands, Gracie carried a giant soup cup and fresh bread out the back and over to the garage.
The Brit had hooked up an electric heater near his workbench, where several old frames leaned in various stages of renovation. Cheap gilding had been stripped off the more ornate ones. Several deep-set frames had been sanded and repainted, and he already had a print matted in one of them.
âYou work fast.â She set the tray down on the bench. âWouldnât you rather come in and warm up?â
âNot cold.â He was wearing only an open flannel shirt over a turtleneck, with a wool scarf dangling down his. . . nicely sculpted. . . chest. He stepped back to admire his work. âWhat do you think?â
âThey look like real art instead of Bertieâs scribbling,â she admitted, admiring the result.
Download
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
Coloring Books for Grown-Ups | Humor |
Movies | Performing Arts |
Pop Culture | Puzzles & Games |
Radio | Sheet Music & Scores |
Television | Trivia & Fun Facts |
Paper Towns by Green John(4790)
Spare by Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex(4784)
Machine Learning at Scale with H2O by Gregory Keys | David Whiting(3612)
Never by Ken Follett(3520)
Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2021 by Harrison Ferrone(3284)
Fairy Tale by Stephen King(2942)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Illustrated edition by J.K. Rowling & Newt Scamander(2920)
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman(2805)
Reminders of Him: A Novel by Colleen Hoover(2752)
How The Mind Works by Steven Pinker(2611)
0041152001443424520 .pdf by Unknown(2592)
Will by Will Smith(2575)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J. K. Rowling(2412)
The God delusion by Richard Dawkins(2180)
Rationality by Steven Pinker(2148)
Borders by unknow(2116)
Never Lie: An addictive psychological thriller by Freida McFadden(2097)
It Starts With Us (It Ends with Us #2) by Colleen Hoover(2030)
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber & David Wengrow(2015)
