Wedding Surprise by Ann B. Harrison

Author:Ann B. Harrison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781949068597
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2018-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Mom, anything to drop off in town while I’m passing?” Ethan walked into the packing shed early the next morning where his mother marked off an invoice.

“Hi, sweetie.” She cross-referenced the invoice to an order book and ticked it off before putting down her pen and holding her arms out to him. “Glad to see you.”

He gave her a cuddle. “Dad out with the pickers, I gather. How is the old grump today?” Ethan leaned against the cool room.

“Same as ever. He’s a good man, your father, despite what you think sometimes. Life hasn’t always been easy for him, you know that.”

“That doesn’t mean he has to make life hard for everyone else, especially you.” He grabbed a handful of cherries from the open box near the scales. “I got an earful from him the other night about letting ‘that girl’ get the better of me again. Looks like you’ve opened a hornet’s nest talking about Mari around him.” He threw a cherry in his mouth, chewed, and leaned over the trash can to spit out the pit.

“Don’t pay him no mind. I can deal with your father. Pretty sure I understand him better than anyone else after all these years together and he’s not that grumpy, Ethan. You know how focused he gets during cherry season.” She put a new box on the scales and checked the weight, added a handful of cherries before tucking the plastic bag down neatly and adding the lid. With a flash of her hand, she’d added a date stamp and pushed it to one side ready to do the next one. Ethan took it and placed it on the pallet with the rest she’d packed that day already.

“I spoke to Mari last night about you meeting Noah. He’s a terrific kid, Mom. You’ll like him. So polite too.”

“I’d expect nothing less from her despite the horrible upbringing she had before we got her.” Pearl brushed a strand of hair from her face, checked another box of cherries on the scales. “I can’t wait to see that little boy. Seems to be all I think about these last few days.” She paused, hand on her hip and a frown between her eyes. “Tell me, do you think she’d mind if I went over tomorrow? We didn’t really get a day set for me to meet him because we thought it would be a good idea to give him time to adjust. Seeing you and then me and your father right away might have been a bit too much for the poor boy. As much as I wanted to rush over there after school, I understand how overwhelming it could be having a whole lot of people pushed into your face. It’s my day off tomorrow and he’ll be home. I can get this lot of orders packed and ready to ship out today if I hurry and that’ll give me all day to do my own thing.”

“Since when have you worked Sundays anyway? Mom, you have to have time to yourself.

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