Hair Calamities and Hot Cash by Gail Pallotta

Author:Gail Pallotta [Pallotta, Gail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Fiction
ISBN: 9781522397908
Publisher: Pelican Book Group
Published: 2018-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

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Philip paced back and forth between the huge panoramic window and the mahogany coffee table in his New York penthouse. Outside the itinerate preachers, celebrities, successful businessmen, thieves, muggers, and murderers filled the streets, but he lost a million dollars in a tiny town in the North Carolina mountains. His nerves never had vibrated under his skin before, but they did now.

He breezed past his business and economics books organized alphabetically by authors in the mahogany bookcase on his way to the kitchen. Priscilla, the maid, always left this place sparkling. His copper pans shone like new pennies above the island.

He reached in the cabinet, all the glasses turned upside down and lined up taller to shorter. He filled one. Water squirted on the brown granite counter top. He’d stained Priscilla’s perfect kitchen. The water would evaporate. He no longer cared about a showcase condo or the events that required he have one. He had to leave and get back Mr. Jacobsen’s money, or his dream for Eve and him would fly away with a mountain breeze.

If only she were here. He depended on her. Who would’ve thought someone from New York would require help navigating a town as small as Triville? In New York he needed to know the streets, but in Triville he had to understand the folks. Eve introduced him to the residents and more importantly, showed him how to interact with them. She understood those who lived in the community as well as the ways of mountaineers in general. He could depend on her to know what he’d overlooked that led to the theft.

He missed the smell of her hair and the feel of her soft cheek. He couldn’t help but chuckle about the scale at Frank’s. He wandered into the bedroom, and the lemon oil Priscilla used wafted from the mahogany computer center.

The sooner he solved this problem the sooner he could work things out with Eve. He pulled out his keyboard and clicked the keys to find the earliest flight. Finally, he booked one out of LaGuardia at six o’clock in the morning. He’d have to wake up at four, but he itched all over for wanting to return to Triville and find the money. He showered and fell into bed with the muscles in his legs twitching. Finally his eyelids grew heavy, his nerves settled, and he dozed off.

He sat at a walnut desk and tapped his computer keys. The phone interrupted him.

“Hi, can you meet me at Bob’s Diner?”

“Sure, Eve. I’m on my way?”

He locked the office, left, drove up the hill lined with green, leafy oak trees to the restaurant and sat at a booth. Eve came in, looking gorgeous in a black dress.

Bonnie Sue sashayed over, popping her chewing gum. “What ya’ll gonna’ have?”

The alarm sounded and Philip sat straight up. He placed his feet on the beige carpet and rubbed his head. Were there enough people in those mountains to warrant an office? Make More Money didn’t have a branch in Western North Carolina.

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