Soul Rest: A Knights of the Board Room Novel by Hill Joey W

Author:Hill, Joey W. [Hill, Joey W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Storywitch Press
Published: 2015-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

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“Not a lot.” But her sister didn’t really call unless she needed something, so Celeste made a noncommittal sound and waited for her to continue. Fortunately, Patrice didn’t make her usual effort toward pointless small talk, a pretense that she’d called for social reasons. Good. Celeste just wasn’t in the mood today.

“Can you do me a big favor, Celly? I know it’s a pain in the ass. I have a small box of stuff at Mom’s. I know I should have picked it up last time I was in town, but you know how she is. I was just wanting to get the hell out of there and forgot it. Well, she called to say she needs to dump some stuff because she might be selling the trailer, et cetera, et cetera, but basically she’s moving another new guy in with her. I’m afraid if I ask her to hold it for me until the next time I’m in town, she’ll just toss it. There are a couple things in it I’d really like to have.”

“Who’s the guy?”

“Don’t know and didn’t ask. She sounded in a hurry when she called me anyhow.”

As usual. Celeste closed her eyes, rubbed her temple.

“I’m really, really sorry to ask. I know you hate going out there.” Her sister sounded suitably chagrined. Celeste didn’t blame Patrice for calling only when she needed something. There was no reason to pretend they were poster children for World’s Greatest Family. As the oldest child, Celeste had made sure her two brothers and her sister finished high school, got out of that trailer park, but there hadn’t been room for a lot of touching Little House on the Prairie scenes during that struggle.

“No, it’s okay. It might take me a few days to get to it.” At Leland’s quizzical gaze, she put her hand over the phone. “My sister needs me to pick up a box at my mom’s.”

“We can get it on the way if you want.”

It was bad enough Leland was seeing her living space. Letting him see where she’d grown up and having him meet her mother? Not happening.

So she shook her head, ignored the disappointment in Trice’s voice. “I promise I’ll do it soon, Trice. Hopefully before the end of the week. Don’t worry. I’ll call Mom and tell her to hold on to it until then.”

“Oh, okay.” Relief took over from disappointment. “You’re the only one she halfway pays attention to anyway. It should be fine, then. Uh, I have to get back to work. Hope everything’s good there?”

Translation: Please just say fine so we don’t have to stay on the phone with one another. “Yep. All’s good here. I’ll text you when I ship the box.”

“Celeste, we have time,” Leland said when she clicked off. “Unless she’s hell and gone in the opposite direction.”

Her mother lived just outside Baton Rouge, right on the route toward New Orleans. She was tempted to tell him she lived in Texas or California or Alaska, but what

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