The Wedding Pearls by Brown Carolyn

Author:Brown, Carolyn [Brown, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781503949539
Published: 2015-12-15T08:00:00+00:00

Lola squealed and pointed at a sign stuck to a fence post. “Look, it’s another garage sale. And it’s only two o’clock and we’re only ten miles from Perryton, so we’ve got time because we can’t check in until three.”

Tessa had been dozing and almost shot straight up out of the car.

“Where do I turn?” Branch laid a hand on her knee. “Settle down. Everything is fine.”

Lola pointed. “Next left, it said on the sign.”

Sure enough, there was another cardboard sign with an arrow and a note that said five miles back down that dirt road was a yard sale. Branch slowed down to a crawl when gravel started to fly up into the Caddy.

“Well, lordy Lord, would you look at that?” Ivy glanced toward the southwest. “We was headed away from that so we wasn’t watchin’ it.”

Tessa looked to her left and there was a bank of black clouds rolling toward them at a fast pace. Suddenly, lightning zipped through the sky and thunder rolled. Branch braked and pushed the button to put the top up on the convertible, turned on the air-conditioning, and told everyone to roll up the windows.

The first big drops hit the car before he could change his foot from brake to gas, and Lola sighed loudly. “You might as well turn around at the next place you can. They’ll have to cover all their stuff or take it in anyway.”

“I figure we’re about two miles from it. Maybe it’s in a garage,” Branch said.

Lola shook her head. “This road is going to get really bad if the rain keeps pouring like this and we might not get back to the paved highway, so we’d better turn back.”

“Oh, no! No! No! No!” Melody moaned.

“You wanted to go to the garage sale that bad?” Ivy asked. “I thought you hated them.”

“No! I don’t care about those silly things. My phone says no service and Jill gets out of classes in half an hour and I wanted to see what she thought of the pictures I sent her and now I can’t text or call or nothin’,” Melody whined.

“It’s only a few minutes to the hotel and maybe you can get reception there,” Tessa said. “Let me try mine. If it is working, you can use it. Nope, no service here, either. Must be the storm.”

Melody put her face in her hands. “Why does this happen to me? I’ve been good for days.”

“God is testing you to see if you can be good when things aren’t perfect in your little world,” Ivy answered.

The rain got harder and harder and Branch slowed down a little more. Then a loud noise that sounded like thunder caused them to swerve to the left. Ivy rolled over against Melody, who slid into Frankie’s side.

“What happened?” Frankie yelled.

“I think we had a blowout, but I see a barn not too far down this lane. We’ll try to make it there and hole up until it stops raining, because we’ll have to take everything from the trunk to get at the spare,” Branch said.

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