Jessie by Lori Wick

Author:Lori Wick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2010-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

IT WAS SOME TIME before Seth had time to even go check on Clancy. He found her lying across the second step, looking bored and put out. He sat on the bottom step to be on her level.

“Is Mama coming?” she asked as soon as she spotted him, sitting up in the process.

“No, I’m here to talk to you.”

“Not Mama?”

“Not this time,” Seth said, working to find brief and simple words for all the things in his heart. “I want to tell you something, and I want you to listen carefully. I think we all have jobs to do. Your job is to be a little girl who listens to her mother and does what she’s told. My job is to work and take care of things for your mother here in the store, and do what she needs me to do.”

Clancy watched him, her eyes intent on his face.

“It’s wrong of you to boss me around. But I don’t want you to boss me around because your mother said not to. I don’t want you giving me orders because it’s not your job. Do you understand, Clancy?”

“What’s my job?”

“Your job is to be seven. You’re not an adult, so you don’t need to act like one. You need to be seven and listen to what your mother and I tell you, and then obey.”

“Are you mad at me?”

“No, but if you forget and boss me around again, I’m not going to wait for your mother to find out. I’ll put you on the stairs myself.”

Her eyes grew a little over this statement, but Seth did not sense that she was going to argue.

“You can get up from the stairs now,” Seth said.

He watched the little girl stand, but she didn’t try to move. Seth wasn’t sure if she didn’t believe he had the right to dismiss her from this place of punishment or if she thought she was still in trouble.

“We call you Seth,” Clancy said suddenly.

“Yes, you do,” that man agreed, wondering where this had come from.

A moment later, Clancy was gone. Hannah had come looking for her, and she had gone with her sister without a backward glance. Seth went back to work himself, but his mind was not on anything but Clancy. Somehow he thought her last statement might be significant, but for the life of him he couldn’t figure out why.

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