What Happens in Texas by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
Published: 2016-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Agnes appeared the next morning with gauze wrapped around her arm from wrist to elbow and carrying it in a sling that smelled like mothballs. A bit of overkill for a scratch, but Trixie wasn’t saying a word.

Cathy hugged her gently. “Oh, Aunt Agnes, does it hurt?”

“Violet probably had rabies up under her fingernails. You reckon I need to take those horrible shots in my belly?” Agnes was able to use the arm very well to dip sausage gravy over the tops of two big buttermilk biscuits.

Cathy giggled. “We’re never going to live this down.”

Agnes’s sparkling eyes and tight little smile told Trixie that they’d not seen the end of the fifty-year-old cat fight.

“Sweet Nothin’s” was playing in the café when the chimes on the doorbell let everyone in the kitchen know the first customer of the day had arrived. Trixie went through the swinging doors backward, tying her apron. She stopped so fast that she almost pitched forward when she came face to face with cameras and a microphone pushed into her face.

“Miss Andrews?” The lady with the microphone took a step closer and a cameraman started filming.

“No, I’m Trixie. Which Miss Andrews do you want?”

The camera clicked off.

“Clawdy, of course,” the woman said.

“There is no Clawdy. The café is named for Claudia Andrews, but she passed on a while back. Would you like to speak to Cathy or Marty Andrews—they are her daughters?” Trixie asked.

“Either one will do fine,” the woman said.

“Hey, Cathy, you better take this one,” Trixie yelled toward the kitchen.

Cathy was stunned to see a cameraman with Sherman’s television station logo on the side. “What is this all about?”

The little red light flashed on the camera.

Agnes pushed her way in front of the cameras. “You want to know about the fracas at the football field last night, you ask me, not her. That was all my doing and she had no part in it.”

“We are here to ask you how you feel about this zoning business. We all love this cute little café in this area and would hate to see you have to sell out. Will you think about relocating to a bigger place, like Sherman or Denison, if your zoning laws are changed?”

“That was resolved at the last Council meeting,” Cathy said.

“It’s been reopened for review. The company that was looking at the house across the street decided to buy property in Sherman. And we have it from a good source that the Cadillac City Council is once again trying to decide if they’re going to rule that your house isn’t zoned for a business.”

“We thought it was taken care of. We’d have to discuss our options before we could make a statement. I’m in business with two partners,” Cathy said.

“This is all Violet Prescott’s doing,” Agnes said.

“Ethan Prescott’s mother?” The lady reporter gave the cameraman a sign to keep the cameras rolling.

“That’s right. It’s a long story, but she attacked me at the fireworks show last night. See?” Agnes held up the arm.

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