The Sometimes Sisters by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown [Brown, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781503949201
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2018-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

“Easter baskets!” Tawny squealed when she arrived. “Who did this? Brook?”

“Nope, Uncle Zed did.” Harper wrapped the long strings of an apron around her waist a couple of times and tied it in the front. She shoved an order pad and pen in one pocket and set about making sure all the napkin dispensers were filled.

Zed’s head poked through the window. “The purple one is for you, Tawny. Yellow for Dana, pink for Brook.”

“Mine is red and it’s in the kitchen, so y’all won’t steal my little bottle of Jack that Zed tucked in,” Harper said.

Tawny carefully removed the cellophane and folded it, hugged the purple bunny to her chest, and then kissed it on the nose. “You can keep that. Look at all this chocolate! Man, I’m going to gain ten pounds and I don’t even care.” Tawny ran from the dining area to the kitchen and wrapped Zed into a bear hug that almost knocked his frail body on the ground. “I love you, Uncle Zed. I haven’t had an Easter basket since I was a little girl. The last one might have been back when we got to come here one year for spring break.”

“Yep, you were five, and Dana had just gotten out of high school the year before. Annie was afraid she’d be offended by an Easter basket, but I insisted that we make her one anyway.” Zed grinned.

“You have a sense of fairness about you that I love.”

“Just the way my mama taught me to be.” His smile got even wider. “Now I got to get breakfast goin’. You get on out there and eat up some of that chocolate to keep you from starvin’ before I get it cooked up.”

“You ain’t goin’ to have to twist my arm to do that. Is that cinnamon rolls I smell in the oven?”

“It’s Easter. That’s the special thing for today,” Zed said. “We won’t have a lot of customers until dinner, and then they’ll all flock in here like ducks on the lake for their blue-plate special.”

Tawny was taking each item out of her basket and setting it on the table when Dana and Brook arrived. She and Harper both giggled when Brook’s hand clamped over her mouth and she did a little dance right inside the café.

“Easter baskets!” Her squeals bounced off the walls. “Look how big they are. Is the pink one mine? Who made them?”

Zed came out of the kitchen and leaned on the counter. Tawny loved the expression on his face when Brook grabbed up the one with her name on it. It was the happiest she’d seen him since before Granny Annie passed on. She started to tear up but swallowed hard and kept it at bay. Zed needed a happy day, and she’d do her best to give him one.

She raised her voice to get over Brook’s squeals as she found her bunny and treats. “Uncle Zed did that for us. Pretty special, huh?”

“I’m going to name my bunny Miss Jo after Granny,” Brook yelled even though Dana was right beside her.

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