Mornings on Main by Jodi Thomas

Author:Jodi Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2018-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

15

In the recesses of his sleeping brain, Connor heard a door open and close, but he didn’t move. Sunnie was coming in late, he thought. He’d talk to her in the morning.

Footsteps across a tiled floor pulled him more awake, and he felt something warm against his side. Warm and breathing. Reality washed over him like a tsunami as the first slice of dawn crept across the sunroom. Before he could move, he heard Mrs. Kelly’s high voice. “If you’re going to sleep here, Mayor, I’ll have to charge you.”

Dread stabbed him in the gut like a boxer’s first blow. He opened one eye. Worse than the Grim Reaper, Mrs. Kelly stood smiling at him.

He could already hear her brain logging the order of who she’d call to tell all about what she’d found going on at her place. And in the sunroom, no less.

Shifting away from Jillian, he slowly stood, adjusting the pillows beneath her without waking her. “What time is it?” he asked, as he herded the little lady through the kitchen doorway.

Mrs. Kelly puffed up, looking quite proper in her mourner’s dress he’d seen at every funeral for the last ten years. “A little after seven, I think, but that’s not...”

Before she could continue with her interrogation, Connor said, “I’ve got to get back to the hospital.”

It worked. She forgot about him sleeping over.

“The hospital! What’s happened? I leave for a few days and something changes. That’s the way it always is. You’d think I lived in the country, fifty miles from town. I’m the last to hear anything.”

He made coffee as she continued to ask questions. When she finally slowed, he answered one. “Gram’s had an accident.”

“Oh, my.” She plopped down on a stool. “Is she all right? How did it happen? Does anyone know?”

Connor couldn’t hide his smile. Mrs. K wanted to be the first to know everything that transpired in town. He couldn’t make that occur, but he could fill in details that probably hadn’t made the rounds. “Half the town started looking when she went missing yesterday morning. She took a fall on the creek path trying to walk from the Acres to her shop.”

“The creek path must be a mile or more from the Acres. Oh, poor dear.”

“Joe Dunaway found her. Muddy and hurt. She spent the night under observation at the hospital. Lucky for her, only one bone in her leg was broken. She’ll be coming home with me for a few days once they release her. I think it’ll calm her nerves to be with Sunnie and me, and you know how she hates people making a fuss over her. The staff at the Acres said they’d do their best to watch over her, but I don’t want her to be alone and hurting, not even for a minute.”

Mrs. K nodded. “She won’t like being babied, so you go easy on the bossing, mister. I remember we all tried to give her a birthday party a few years back, and she threatened to print all our ages in your paper.

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