Saturday Snippet: You Know of What I Speak

The following snippet is taken from

Mail Order Blythe

Secret Baby Dilemma Book 8 

 

          “Mother, I don’t have classes to teach this summer. This is my holiday. Now, I’m busy. Please wait until I’m finished up here.”

          “Is that any way to speak to your mother?”

          “Not now, Ma.” Eli shook his head as he walked back to the line of trunks and crates through which he had been sorting. He touched the flat surface of a long, wooden footlocker and grimaced at what he felt. Dust. No wonder he had put off searching the attic for so long. As much as even before his last classes of the semester ended, he had looked forward to finding the maps and gathering his equipment. Yet, a part of him realized that, no matter how much grass and shrubbery grew around his half-acre lot, and in spite of the windows having been kept closed all winter, the items stored in the attic would be covered with dust.

          Eli unfastened the buckles on the pair of leather straps tacked to the wood which held the footlocker together. He leaned over and, through lips squeezed into a circle as if he were blowing a trumpet. In reality, he blew lungfuls of air to remove the dust from the wooden top. Choking over the dense air that now filled his lungs, he waved the cloud away with one hand as he lifted the lid with the other.

          “Aha! Found it!” The first thing Eli spotted sitting on top was a black velvet envelope-style pouch in which he kept his sextant. Beneath it were yellowed papers folded in large rectangles. My maps! He sorted through the locker and removed any of the contents he thought he would need for his trip to Wyoming Territory. Tucking the bundle of folded papers beneath his arm, he gripped the sextant tightly in the same hand and used his other to grasp the side of the [ladder-style] stairs as he made his descent.

          “You haven’t answered my question.” Aletha’s pinched-lipped expression beneath her reproving gaze met her son’s gaze as he stepped on the second-story floor. “And don’t widen those baby blue eyes of yours and give me that innocent look. You know of what I speak.”

My next book to be published on March 19, 2021 is titled Mail Order Blythe, Book 8 in the series, Secret Baby Dilemma.

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I will soon be working on my next book, Cole, Cupid & Cowboys Book 8, that will follow Mail Order Blythe. It is currently available for Preorder on Amazon. For the book description, please CLICK HERE.

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