Rise and Shine by Sandra B. Bricker

Author:Sandra B. Bricker [Bricker, Sandra D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8024-8404-8
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2014-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

“You know the way to Millicent’s,” Shannon observed as he drove. “Why is that?”

“I went out there once. Early on, after Edmund passed away.” Daniel stared directly out the windshield, avoiding her gaze, as he turned the car into the gated community where Millicent lived.

“For?”

The corner of Daniel’s mouth twitched slightly. The girl didn’t know how to let anything pass.

“She’d just filed the first papers with the court. A transfer of Edmund’s power of attorney. A petition for medical guardianship—”

Shannon tossed her head back against the headrest with a thump and laughed out loud. “You’re joking! Guardianship implies looking out for my best interests. She just wanted to pull the plug and be done with me so she could take the money and run.”

“I thought I could talk some sense into her, try to get her to see things from Edmund’s perspective.”

“How’d that work out?” she asked dryly.

Daniel chuckled. “Once I pulled up this driveway to her lair, I kind of got a glimpse at what was ahead.”

The iron gates stood open this time around, and Daniel steered down the long driveway bordered on both sides by a short wall of whitewashed brick and stone. Tall, thin Italian cyprus trees groomed to a sharp point at the top led the way around a bend where the massive two-story home loomed beneath a gloomy gray sky.

“Yep,” Daniel said as he pulled up out front. “Put this place at the top of a hill in the middle of a thunderstorm, and we’ve got the makings of a really scary movie.”

Shannon giggled. “The first time Edmund brought me here, I wanted to turn around and run through the front gate.”

“It’s hard to imagine him coming from this kind of place.”

“I know what you mean,” she said, leaning forward and glaring up at the house. “He was just a kid when they moved into The Point. I think he looked past the ghastly castle aspects and actually loved the place with its big Spanish front doors and the dock out back. You know he was the one who inherited it when their mother died, right? Even though she got a different house—the one up in Napa—and a sizeable chunk of the family business, it was always a bone of contention for Millicent. But I couldn’t even imagine living in this house, so as you probably know, Edmund gave it to his sister and we bought the place in Briarcliff.”

“You could fit that house into this one about twelve times.”

“Yep,” she said, still gazing at the house through the front windshield. She shuddered. “Of all the things my brain decided to forget, why couldn’t this place have been one of them?”

The hundred-year-old front door creaked open. A stiff-lipped sentinel, with black hair and a suit to match, stood in the doorway staring at them.

“Lurch or Alfred?” Daniel cracked, and Shannon giggled.

“I can’t remember. But he’s the son of the man who worked for them for a couple of centuries. That was Reginald.”

“You’re joking.”

Snickering as she cranked open the door, Shannon stepped out of the SUV and grabbed the antique box from the floor.

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