The M.D. Meets His Match by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Marie Ferrarella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The sign was missing from the window. The fact registered belatedly in her brain as April drove past the front of the post office sometime later. After she’d dropped Jimmy off, she’d impulsively gone on a drive to visit the house where she’d lived when things had been happier for her family.

The house, little more than a shack really, had looked so forlorn, so sad. She couldn’t make herself go in.

Served her right for thinking she could recapture a glimmer of the past.

Throwing the car into reverse rather than parking it in the garage, April slowly backed up until she was level with the post office window again. The sign was gone, all right, and there was someone inside.

She didn’t have to bother to try to make out the figure to know who it was.

“Damn it, Gran, why are you trying to turn my hair white before yours?”

Blowing out a breath, April had gotten her temper under fair control by the time she’d parked the all-terrain vehicle and walked into the post office. Framing a lecture, both about her grandmother’s impromptu “sleepover” last night and about her being down here this afternoon, April didn’t get a chance to get the first word out as she walked in.

Ursula turned away from the desk, a wide smile on her face. “So, you like this one, don’t you?”

The question halted her in her tracks and effectively turned the tables, at least for the moment. She was suddenly seventeen again, coming home from a date with some boy or other and being subjected to her grandmother’s eager questions, all underlined with the basic hope that she’d fallen in love with someone and would remain in Hades. It never happened.

April frowned, tossing her worn purse on the counter. “You make him sound like a dress or a pair of shoes.”

Ursula’s smile grew wider, recognizing the tan, suede purse as the one she’d given her years ago. “Well, I certainly wouldn’t mind wearing—”

“Gran!” Had she always been like this, or had her grandmother just gotten more spirited and lusty since April’d moved away?

Ursula patted her hair, her eyes twinkling in unabashed amusement. It was as if their roles had suddenly reversed and she was the modern granddaughter while April was the stodgy grandmother. She sincerely hoped that April wasn’t stodgy. She wanted great-grandchildren and April’s time to settle down had come.

“I’m not dead yet, darlin’.”

April’s frown deepened, even though she felt affection tugging at her heart. How could someone who was so vital ever fade from her life?

“Keep this up and you will be.” She did her best to look stern. “Speaking of which, what are you doing down here and why is the post office open again? I locked up for the day.”

“And I unlocked it. You can’t lock up the post office in the middle of the day unless it’s a national holiday or we’re at war—maybe not even then,” Ursula added. “You wanted to go out and I think that’s wonderful, but we can’t have the post office locked up like that, it’s just not right.

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