Those We Love Most by Lee Woodruff

Author:Lee Woodruff [Woodruff, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Family Life, Contemporary Women, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 1401341780
Google: 0K5384o5NyEC
Amazon: 1401341780
Barnesnoble: 1401341780
Publisher: Voice
Published: 2012-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

21

The long aisles of Lowe’s were packed with people this time of year, but all of the holiday-related items and decorations seemed to be near the front of the store. It was mostly Christmas lights that they needed, the white outdoor kind for the bushes in front of the house. Maura had pulled everything out of the attic over the weekend, and half of the tiny bulbs didn’t work. It was easier just to buy new ones, Pete had instructed, rather than search for the one culprit that was affecting the entire strand. While she was here she thought she might pick up a few items to put under the tree. Erin’s husband, Brad, was such a Mr. Fixit she could probably find him some set of tools or nice work gloves; it was worth poking around. Maybe she’d locate some of those small LCD flashlights too, for Ryan’s stocking.

Maura pushed the oversize shopping cart absentmindedly through the garden aisle. She had no real concept of exactly what she was looking for, perhaps a set of pruning shears for her mother, that expensive German brand with the red handles. Moving toward the next row, past the hoes and rakes, and into the lightbulb aisle, she saw a mother with a young boy in her cart. Next to them was a store employee with a blue apron. The worker was young, a kid, and something about the familiarity of his frame made Maura look twice in the crowded store. It was the way the young man was leaning forward toward the cart and offering something to the child, a toy or some small object perhaps from the shelves, as a look of shy delight played across the little boy’s face.

Maura realized, with a sudden ripple of alarm, that it was Alex Hulburd in the Lowe’s apron. He must have taken a part-time job during the holidays. She stopped and then backed up the cart slowly, keeping her eyes trained on him through the shelves to make sure she was unobserved. Yes, she was sure of it now, the inverted triangle of his swimmer’s frame, his fine features and sandy hair. She panicked for a moment, wanting to be invisible, unable to tear herself away. His gentle interactions with the little boy fascinated her, and she maneuvered the cart around to an angle in the next aisle where she could better observe the interaction but remain unseen.

“What’s your name?” she heard Alex say, his voice lower than she had expected, more mature.

“Chris.” The boy was shy but warming under Alex’s coaxing. His mother chatted brusquely into her cell phone, holding up various sizes of lightbulbs and barking the numbers to the person on the other end, clearly trying to determine what she needed. She could see the object now; it was something on Alex’s key chain that he was using to distract the little boy, showing him how when you pushed little buttons two eyes lit up. Another one made a silly noise like a monkey call.

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