Scottish Snow & Mistletoe: A Short Story by L.L. Muir

Author:L.L. Muir [Muir, L.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-30T05:00:00+00:00

THE GIFT

“It’s a bit harder to read the dregs at the bottom of hot chocolate,” Loretta said. “But I’ve done it before—quite recently, in fact.” Her wrinkled lips smoothed into a wide smile that was cut short by an elbow from her sister.

“Just read them, Retta.”

Alex had been a little disappointed to find that the urgent Christmas present from her late grandmother was a simple fortune telling, but she didn’t regret coming to the city for it. After all, she’d had a good laugh with a handsome guy and made an old man happy—and possibly, some woman named Carol Carroll. Compared to sitting alone in her grandma’s cottage picking through boxes of sentimental dust, she was feeling pretty dang festive.

“You’re an easy going lass,” Loretta said. “That bodes well for you.”

Alex nodded and waited for something she didn’t already know.

“And though you’ve been...unprepared for a soul mate...” The woman turned the cup around, looked close, then smiled. “It looks like that’s not the case anymore.”

Ready for her soulmate? An easy guess. She looked well over twenty and she didn’t have a ring on her finger.

Lorraine frowned her way, but spoke to her sister. “How about it, Retta. Does it say when she’ll find this soul mate?”

Her sister shrugged. “Tonight.”

Alex chuckled. “That’s funny.”

The sisters weren’t laughing. And after Alex got a hold of herself, which wasn’t easy, Loretta set the cup aside, leaned over the table, and took her hand.

She frowned at the lines and stroked them with soft fingers like she thought she could rearrange them. “You don’t have to believe in magic, dear. But you do have to believe in love. Can you do that?”

Alex nodded. “I do believe in love. No problem there.”

“And if there is a chance there might really be a true mate for you out there, tonight, would you do exactly as we say? You know, roll with it?”

So far, they’d only asked her to sit down and have a hot drink, then let them read her tea leaves, or chocolate smears as it turned out to be. She couldn’t imagine they’d ask her for much worse.

“Sure. Why not? I haven’t got anything else going on tonight.”

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