Maeve's Girls by Christine Gael

Author:Christine Gael [Gael, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Frog Prints Publishing

Maggie

"So you're telling me that you're the one who broke my Walkman?" Kate demanded with a gasp as Sasha let out a peal of laughter. "You know I stopped talking to April Thorpe for a month after that because you told me you saw her sit on it at my sleepover party."

"I was a little jerk when I was a kid, what can I say?" Sasha admitted with a shrug, her face filled with impish glee.

"Sorry, maybe?" Kate shot back in faux indignation.

"If anyone is owed an apology, it's April Thorpe, but seeing as how I've reached my apology quota for this millennium, and April is now married to a banker, has a mansion in the Garden District, and drives an Aston Martin, neither one of you should hold your breath."

Maggie closed one eye and then the other, sizing up her vision. Yup. She could still see straight. Which meant they were all due for another shot.

"Glasses up, girls," she chirped, dragging the moonshine jar off the table and pouring as her sisters leaned in.

They all sat around their gently used but new-to-them coffee table, sprawled on the floor among pizza boxes and cupcake wrappers. The grandfather clock against the wall had struck nine and they were all deep in their cups, but the mood in the room was warm and easy. A far cry from the near-constant tension between them since the reading of the will.

Maggie let out a snick of disapproval as she poured the last few drops of moonshine into Lena's glass.

"Okay, looks like me and Kate are gonna have to take one for the team and settle for the Prosecco, because we are officially out of Mama's moonshine."

"Sweet Maeve's Moonshine," Kate corrected with a chuckle. "Remember?"

Maggie tensed and shot a glance at Sasha. "Um, yup, I remember..."

"What are you two talking about?" Lena asked, scooping up her glass and letting out a hiccup that sent them all into another laughing fit. When the chuckles stopped, Sasha clinked her glass to Lena's, knocked back her shot, and rolled to her feet, weaving a little as she did.

"Okay, on that note, since tonight is officially slate-clearing day, I have a confession to make."

Maggie ceased her efforts to uncork the Prosecco and gave her sister her undivided attention.

"I've been thinking and...I want to keep the house."

She said it like she'd dropped a bomb into a crowd, but since Maggie and Kate both already knew, all their attention was on Lena as Sasha continued.

"I spent a lot of my childhood and a large part of my adulthood in this house. More than that, though, this was Mama's house. I feel her everywhere here. I just can't imagine selling it to some strangers off the street."

Maggie held her breath on Sasha's behalf as she eyed a silent Lena, waiting for the verdict.

Lena cocked her head and studied Sasha for a long moment, and then nodded thoughtfully. "Okay, keep talking.”

Sasha wet her lips nervously. "Well, I was thinking, we still have the barn back there and all the equipment.

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