The Christmas Horse by Jennifer Conner

Author:Jennifer Conner
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Jon came back into the house to find his dad sitting at the table, waiting for him.

“So…?”

“So… that was Laura. She brought us shortbread and wanted to thank us for our rescue mission.” Jon leaned a hip against the kitchen counter and bit into another cookie. “She’s working through some things, but she didn’t say exactly what.”

His dad peeled back the plastic on his TV dinner. “Did she ask you again about roofing the building she’s trying to buy?”

“No.”

“The roof of that building is in bad shape- the loan will never go through.”

Jon eyed him. “How the heck do you know all these things?”

“I’m a business man. I need to know where all the rotten roofs are in town, that’s what keeps us busy.”

Things started to fall into place.

Moving into the living room, he grabbed his cell phone and dialed. He guessed Laura would go to the Northwest Mountain Bank since they were both friends of the bank’s manager. “Hey, Bill, it’s Jon. I know with all the confidential client rules these days you can only say so much, but, if I was going to do some roof repair on the grange hall… how many days would I need for it to be… helpful? Say-like, if someone was thinking of getting a loan to purchase it.”

Bill chuckled. “You back with Laura? I always knew you guys would end up together somehow.”

“No. She’s just had some bad things happen. As you probably know, she’s trying to open a dance school and I thought I might help out. It’s Christmas after all. You’re supposed to do good things for people, aren’t you? Can you give me the approval to do the work?”

“Yeah, I can do that, and you have two days. The morning of Christmas Eve, I just might have the final building inspection before the loan’s approved or denied. With the roof repairs done, the loan would… let’s say, hypothetically, be approved.”

“Thanks. This conversation never took place. But, if you happen to give me a call in the next week or two, the beers are on me.”

He put his phone back on the end table and walked into the kitchen.

“Who was that?” his dad asked.

“Nobody.” Jon grinned. “You know, those days off we had before Christmas? Looks like we have another job.”

****

Laura spent the next few days trying to figure out an alternative to the building she’d looked at for her dance school. Another place would become vacant after the first of the year. The grange would be perfect, but someplace else could work.

There was too much of a time crunch with the bank wanting the repairs on the former grange hall. It was too close to Christmas. It wasn’t feasible. Looking at another site would give her more time. She’d drive around town and take another look, then call her realtor. She could use all the sketches and plans she’d drawn up for the grange… at another place.

It will work out.

She took another sip of her cappuccino and wondered if that was true.

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