Home for Christmas by Jessika Devert

Author:Jessika Devert [Annika Devert Jessika Devert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: F
ISBN: 9788726922592
Publisher: SAGA Egmont
Published: 2021-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Half an hour later, Andreas was back in Emelie’s kitchen.

“What did you want to ask me about?”

He took off his cap, drying the sweat from his forehead. Emelie told him the story about the Christmas decorations and Astrid and finished by with telling him about the baking book. Andreas looked at her with tear-filled eyes.

“I didn’t know about Astrid and my grandfather, but there was always a certain chemistry between them. I’ve often wondered if Astrid could be an illegitimate child that my great grandfather had fathered, and if she could be my granddad’s sister, but I guess that wasn’t the case. Can you believe that she could forgive granddad, letting us into her home?”

He shook his head and slumped down onto one of her chairs. Emelie sat down across from him, taking his hands in hers.

“Everyone is talking about what a lovely person Astrid was, and this really proves it.”

He looked up at her, smiling sadly and wiping away a couple of tears from his cheek with his sleeve.

“You are right, love works in mysterious ways, huh?”

Emelie got a lump in her throat looking into his beautiful, teary eyes and she couldn’t say a word. Then he smiled at her.

“But what was it you said about the baking book?”

Emelie got up, leaning against the countertop.

“Yes, turns out that Astrid used to keep he baking book hidden on the planks under her mattress. I mean, in one of the old beds that I asked you to toss when we bought new ones. Does that mean that they are in the dump and that the baking book is lost forever? I don’t know how to tell Linn that we have thrown the book out…”

She looked desperately at Andreas who scratched his head.

“Yes, I did what you asked me to…”

Emelie interrupted him, dropping down onto on the chair again.

“Yes, I get it. Shit. Linn is going to be so disappointed.”

Andreas sat down next to her.

“But I saved one of the beds. If we’re lucky it’s the right one” he said slowly.

Emelie looked up at him.

“What? Where is it?”

He got up, walked towards the back of the house and looked out into the garden. He pointed, grinning.

“It’s over there.”

Emelie squinted, looking for something that resembled like a bed, but couldn’t see anything.

“There where? It’s not in the garden, is it?”

“I use it as a frame for flowers. Or I intend to, right now it’s behind the guesthouse. We’ll see if it’s the one,” he said, walking towards the door.

Emelie followed him and, behind the cottage, she saw a bed standing on the headboard leaned towards the outer wall of the house. It was an ordinary bedframe in pinewood and with sturdy bed rails and with a couple of moisture stains from having been out in the summer rain.

“Let’s turn it over,” Andreas said, grabbing one of the short sides of the bedframe.

Emelie grabbed the other, and together they managed to turn the bed upside down. And there they were, two rows of planks on top of each other.

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