Monkey Wrench by Nancy Martin

Author:Nancy Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Harlequin Special Releases
Publisher: Harlequin

CHAPTER EIGHT

IN THE CAR the next morning, Rose decided she couldn’t put off breaking the news to Susannah any longer.

After they were both buckled into their seat belts and Susannah was reaching for the ignition, Rose said, “I took the liberty of butting into your life, darling, by calling the Santori house this morning.”

Susannah dropped the car keys. “Granny Rose, you promised not to interfere!”

“I promised nothing of the kind,” Rose said with a regal lift of her nose. “For that false accusation, I may not tell you what I learned.”

“You’re bursting to tell me, so get it out.”

“All right—I talked to Gina. I didn’t want you to drive us over to Joe’s house only to discover he’s off working somewhere, because you’d just leave the scarf with his daughter and let matters drop.”

Susannah’s gaze narrowed suspiciously. “What did you do, Granny Rose?”

“I asked Gina where her father would be working today, and she told me. We have to drive out to Timberlake, the Ingalls family lodge, if we want to see Joe in person, and I know you do.”

“What if his friend Angelica wants to see him, too?”

“Why are you worried about another woman, Suzie? You’re so beautiful and charming that Joe couldn’t possibly choose anyone else—”

“I’m not in a competition, Granny Rose. If Joe has a good relationship with someone, I’m not going to go vamping around to break them up. It’s wrong, not to mention embarrassing! If it’s even true, that is.”

“What? What do you mean?”

Susannah bent down and picked up the car keys. “Nothing. Just something that occurred to me last night after I went to bed.”

“Oh? You didn’t sleep well?”

Susannah gave an exasperated sigh. “I slept well enough, thank you very much. I just wasn’t especially sleepy, that’s all. I got to thinking about Gina Santori.”

“What about her?”

“Don’t get that gleam in your eye again, please. I won’t have you plotting anything for my benefit, all right? I’m serious, Granny Rose. Stop the matchmaking.”

“All right,” said Rose, lying through her teeth.

“Promise?”

Rose looked out the car window as Susannah started her car and pulled out of the parking space. “It’s a lovely day, isn’t it? I love seeing sunlight glistening on the snow.”

“You’re changing the subject, Granny Rose.”

“What subject?”

Susannah sighed again.

Rose smiled.

* * *

TIMBERLAKE LODGE, a fine old summer house up on the lake that needed extensive renovations, had provided Joe with a steady income for several months. But he had come to see the lodge as something more than money in his pocket. He really liked the old place. It was a beautiful, rambling building with a long veranda, from which the view of the lake was breathtaking.

Joe enjoyed working at the lodge.

And he didn’t mind that it was haunted.

“There’s no ghost,” Liza Baron Forrester insisted. She was the granddaughter of Judson Ingalls, who owned the lodge, and Liza had moved into the place the previous summer. “That’s just a silly story that got started around town. The lodge is not haunted.”

“Whatever you say, Liza.” Joe strapped on his tool belt and proceeded into the entrance hall where he was currently working.

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