Promise of Yesterday by Moore S. Dionne

Author:Moore, S. Dionne [Moore, S. Dionne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60742-922-7
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2010-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

fifteen

It about killed Marylu to stay out of the main room with Aaron there. She wanted so badly to know why he was setting foot in a dress shop. Alone. A thousand possibilities streamed through her mind. Instead of stewing, she decided to take action.

She slipped into the smaller room that was used for the ladies to change and scanned the board wall for knotholes. She’d studied that wall enough to know the pine boards had them scattered all over. She pushed on each knot to see if any would work loose. The first three she tried didn’t budge, but the fourth, far down on the wall, popped out into the room beyond. She held her breath in hopes it wouldn’t make a loud sound as it hit the floor.

She bent her left knee first, careful not to lower herself too fast lest the pain be intense, and sunk to the floor. As soon as she caught a glimpse of Jenny and Aaron, she knew that knot could have clattered and clanged up a storm and they wouldn’t have noticed. How could two people so right for each other not see it for themselves?

Aaron was handing over some coins, and Jenny was taking them with a grateful, pink-cheeked smile. The man cleared his throat. “I hope you have a good day, Miss McGreary.”

“Thank you,” Miss Jenny responded in a breathless rush that made Marylu roll her eyes. “You have a good day, too, Mr. Walck.”

Vexed at having gone to all the trouble to hear their conversation only to catch the end of it, Marylu got vertical and went out into the main room as fast as her legs could carry her.

Jenny gasped at the sight of her. “Marylu!”

“I saw him here, and you’re going to tell me every bit the reason why he came over here.”

Jenny’s eyes went wide, and she covered her pink cheeks with her hands. “I should have known you were spying on us.”

“Not spying.” She sputtered to an indignant stop and realized that she had been spying. “Well, not at first anyhow. Got here and heard his voice. When I peeked and saw it was him, I …”

Jenny looked over her shoulder at the wall behind her and the knothole in the center of the floor. Her eyes smiled up at Marylu. “I thought I heard something fall. I hope you didn’t hurt your knees too much.”

Marylu crossed her arms.

Jenny giggled and rolled up the dark material she had spread across her lap. “I couldn’t believe it when I saw him walk in. But there he was.”

“Your cheeks are pinker than I’ve seen them since you had the fever two years ago.”

She pressed a hand to her face. “Yes, I suppose they are.”

“So you going to tell me what he was doing here, or am I going to have to go ask him?”

Jenny released a sigh, and her expression sobered a bit. “It was nothing, really.”

“Nothing didn’t seem to be what I was seeing.”

With the bolt in her arms, Jenny got to her feet and replaced it in its spot against one wall.

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