A Family Affair: The Wish: Truth in Lies, Book 9 by Campisi Mary

Author:Campisi, Mary
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-942158-14-1
Publisher: Mary Campisi Books, LLC
Published: 2016-04-14T04:00:00+00:00

9

When a man like Mr. West Coast hit town, it didn’t take long before the speculation started. What’s he doing here? Where’s he staying? How long is he staying? And then, the sneakier ones, laced with just the right amount of nonchalance, Is he with anyone? But they didn’t mean was he with anyone in a room or a meeting hall; they meant was he with anyone, as in a relationship. Wife? Girlfriend? Almost girlfriend? They clung to the answer, dissected it for missed interpretation and possibility. Men and women speculated, but none harder or with greater interest than Pop Benito, who believed there was someone for everyone and it was his duty with the time he had left on this earth to match the someones and the everyones.

His latest consideration was Adam Brandon. Pop called him Mr. West Coast, not because he lived in California, though word had it he had lived there a few years back. Nope, Pop had tacked that name on him because the man reminded him of the California skies Pop had seen when he’d visited Anthony a few years back. Bright and sunny, with the tan to go with it. He sure was a handsome young man, tall, lean, blond, a real looker with dimples and gray eyes. He’d run into him at Lina’s Café the other day, caught him and Bree Kinkaid sharing a table and lunch. Hmm. Wonder if they might be sharing something else, too, or if they weren’t, how much longer it might take before they were. Bree was a widow with a boulder of hurt on her shoulders and a face that said “been done wrong,” but Pop didn’t miss the laughter that sneaked out of those lips when Mr. West Coast’s smile spilled over her like warm syrup and those dimples were the cherry on top. Yup, something was definitely brewing between those two and if it hadn’t been stirred up yet, it might just need a bit of help, the kind that was Pop’s specialty. As long as Mr. West Coast didn’t plan on taking those good looks and Bree and the girls with him when he left town.

Maybe the young buck would stick around, call Magdalena his home. Stranger things had happened. Look at Ben Reed. Never thought that boy would settle in a place he’d called backwards and hillbilly, but love changed a person, made him better, made his heart bigger, and that’s what had happened to Ben. Now, it seemed he’d forgotten he’d ever been a city boy. Strange indeed. Pop chuckled and made his way to the cupboard where he removed the flour and sugar. If he didn’t dilly-dally, he could finish a batch of pizzelles before dinner and deliver them to Mimi’s place tomorrow. Maybe right around the time Mr. West Coast was getting back to the Heart Sent from work. What better way to assess the man than a straight-up meet with Mimi Pendergrass at his side? Mimi could analyze a person and a situation before he finished his first glass of hibiscus tea.

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