The House on Seabreeze Shore by Jessie Newton

Author:Jessie Newton [Newton, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JEN Publishing

Chapter Twenty-One

Alice narrowed her eyes at the pretty blonde girl who’d walked through the door behind Charlie. Ginny came after her, the three of them practically talking over one another. They went right by her office without even looking inside, and Alice wondered if the reuniting her friends were doing with their families was as anti-climactic as hers.

Charlie and Ginny had been excited to see her when she’d finally walked through the door. Their first question had been about food, with the second if Sariah Page could come over so they could study for a chemistry test.

Alice’s suspicious nature had kicked into gear then. Hadn’t Arthur called her into his office less than a week ago because Charlie had scored perfectly on his organic unit in chemistry? Would there be another test so soon?

Charlie’s laughter filtered back to her from the kitchen, and it only annoyed Alice. If he was going to be spending time with another girl—a very pretty, very smart girl—he should tell Mandie.

“What’s to say he hasn’t?” Alice muttered to herself, shifting some papers around on her desk. She wasn’t going to get any work done in here, and she might as well go meet this girl that could cause a lot of drama in her life.

She couldn’t even imagine telling Robin that Charlie was spending more and more time with another girl. It’s not your business, she told herself as she planted both palms against the desk. Let Charlie and Mandie work out their relationship themselves.

She didn’t have to tell Robin anything. At the same time, Alice already felt in trouble and like she’d done something wrong for not mentioning Sariah to Robin while they’d been stuck in that tiny room underneath the stairs.

She’d taken a picture of the will with her scanner app, and Alice thumbed around on her phone to get to it. She emailed it to herself, then turned to her computer. The email popped up, and she marveled at the technology she had at her fingertips these days. Law school would’ve been so different with laptops and apps, instant messaging and the Internet. That had just barely been coming into mainstream life, and she could remember when Della had gotten the dial-up service. If Alice called home twice and got a busy signal, she knew her father or Della was on the Internet.

She smiled at the memories, because they seemed so sweet now. She needed to get out and see her father, as she hadn’t been to Rocky Ridge for a few weeks. Besides her date with Arthur, that was, and she wasn’t going to pop in for a visit to her dad and step-mom while on a first date.

She downloaded the PDFs and printed them, clipping them together in order though there were only four pages.

Kelli had texted several minutes ago, which had prompted Alice to leave her mocktail on the kitchen counter and come into the office. The twins had already left to go pick up Sariah, who didn’t have a car, and Alice had thought about working before they’d walked in.

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