Trivial Pursuits: The Love Game: Book Seven by Elizabeth Hayley

Author:Elizabeth Hayley [Hayley, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642633467
Publisher: Waterhouse Press

“If one more thing in here breaks, I might have to sell the whole house at the yard sale too.”

I’d heard Vee come in the back door, and I couldn’t stop myself from bitching. Which I knew made me seem like a bitch, but right now I had to admit I kind of was one. I should be thankful I’d been gifted a house, even if that house wasn’t in the condition I’d been prepared to take on. But a fucking leak? I’d just had to pay to have someone fix the AC last week, and now this?

“What’s wrong?” Vee called. “And we’re having a yard sale? When did you decide that?”

“When I realized I need to get rid of this house and everything in it.”

She must’ve recognized the urgency in my voice, because I heard her sprint up the stairs before I saw her. Then she was beside me in no time, her eyes moving up and down from the bucket to the soggy ceiling above it and back down again. “What the hell happened?”

“Something leaked,” I said dryly. I didn’t mean to sound condescending when I said it, and I hoped Vee didn’t interpret it like that. “Sorry. I’m not frustrated with you. I’m just frustrated in general.” There were two things I typically stayed away from—electricity and anything involving water. The idea of setting the house on fire or possibly flooding it scared the hell out of me.

When Minnie was alive, she’d always paid for the things I couldn’t—or wouldn’t—fix, but now she was gone, and she’d left what little money she’d had from her estate to a charity I’d never even heard of.

When I’d first moved in, she’d spun some yarn about working the nightshift in a warehouse so I wouldn’t make too much noise during the day. But in reality, the only money she had coming in was from social security. That meant that now I couldn’t just call someone to come fix something just because I didn’t want to. Plus, the house was already flooding, so to speak. How badly could I fuck this job up?

I hadn’t even noticed Vee disappearing to get towels, but before I knew it, she was back with an armful of them. She put them around the bucket to absorb any stray droplets that might land on the hardwood floor.

“Did a pipe burst or something?”

“No, it’s leaking in through the attic ceiling, so there must be an issue with the roof. I tried climbing out the attic window to get up there, but—”

“But it’s pouring out and you’re not Spider-Man, so you realized you’re gonna have to wait until it’s nice out and you have a ladder like a normal person?”

“Something like that,” I said, sounding completely defeated.

“Well, it’s supposed to stop raining soon, so hopefully the worst of the damage is done.”

“I hope so. I can patch the ceiling down here once it all dries out, but the roof is a different story.”

I hoped it didn’t have to be completely replaced.

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