Undone (A Country Roads Novel) by Shannon Richard

Author:Shannon Richard [Richard, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Country Roads#1
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2013-07-02T10:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

A Stuffed Elephant and a Scheming Weasel

Every year during the third weekend in October, Mirabelle hosted a fall festival. It was the biggest event of the year. The two small hotels in Mirabelle were always booked solid and every single beach house and condo was rented out. Even the very expensive resort on the beach had no vacancy. A lot of the people stayed north of Mirabelle in Tallahassee or west in Panama City and they’d make the forty-minute drive into town every day.

There was a huge craft fair. People from all over the South came to set up booths for the weekend, selling hand-stitched quilts, baked goods, jams and preserves, jewelry, antiques, clothes, and about a hundred other things. Harper had a booth where she sold her homemade lotions and massage oils. It was the same ones that she used on her clients. She’d make the products year-round, and her supplies were completely depleted by the end of the festival.

Restaurants from all over the Panhandle came, cooking their specialties and keeping everyone full of good food. There was a cook-off each day. The main courses changed every year. This year it was gumbo on Friday, barbecue on Saturday, and pie on Sunday afternoon. Grace and Lula Mae didn’t set up a booth to sell their food, because they were competing in the cook-offs. Contestants were allowed to enter only one competition. Lula Mae was making gumbo. Grace was making pie.

The fair came into town that weekend too, complete with a funhouse, a haunted house, a carrousel, a Ferris wheel, a couple of small roller coasters, prize booths, and a petting zoo. Parents lined up with their kids to ride around on the many horses and ponies from the area. Shep’s aunt and uncle owned a horse farm in Mirabelle, and they were the ones who provided the four-legged entertainment. There was a pumpkin-carving contest on Friday and a pumpkin-throwing contest on Sunday, both equally messy. And on Saturday night, there was a dance.

Brendan picked up Paige on Friday night and they headed over to the festival. He led her through the crowd to the entrance, her hand in his. But the second she saw the craft booths, she was the one leading him, and he happily followed. Paige wanted to see as much as possible because she was working at the festival the next morning. Mel had roped her into doing face painting at one of the booths for the high school.

Paige bought some organic honey and apple butter, wind chimes made of large antique keys, and a box of Italian lemon mousse chocolates. She lingered at a booth that made jewelry from spoons for a couple of minutes, eyeing a ring that was a bit on the pricey side.

“Why don’t you get it?” Brendan asked, sidling up behind her and pressing his nose to her hair. He couldn’t help himself; she just smelled so damn incredible.

“No, it’s too expensive,” she said, shaking her head. “I don’t need a sixty-dollar ring.

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