The Mended Hearts Bookshop (TETHERINGTON HEARTS #1) by Sienna Waters EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Sienna Waters
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- Genre: contemporary romance
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The day the letter arrived was a perfectly normal day. Ash worked in the
morning, lining up the neat columns of numbers until everything
balanced out nicely, and at twelve fifteen precisely tucked in her chair
and pulled on her down jacket. The weather was surprisingly chilly for
March and she was glad of the jacket as she walked down the Embankment.
She spent a satisfactory forty five minutes at the Royal Opera House
attending a free lunchtime concert, and by two o’clock was once again
walking back down the Embankment toward her building.
The first odd thing that happened was that her phone rang. Pausing by
the railing overlooking the river, Ash stared at the tiny screen. The number
was unknown, but that didn’t mean anything. After all, it could be a client.
She was a freelance accountant, it wasn’t beyond the realms of possibility
that someone would phone her.
On the other hand, she currently only had long-term jobs and all of those
had, so far, been dealt with online.
It might be spam or the phone company, she supposed. Or perhaps it was
a wrong number.
She sighed and decided there was only one way to find out.
“Hello?”
“Ash?” The voice on the other end of the phone was crackly and
sounded far, far away. Which, given that it was her mother, and given that
her mother was currently on an around the world cruise with her latest
husband, was probably true.
“Mum?”
“We’re in port,” her mother said. “So Ted said I should ring because it’s
impossible to call from the ship.”
“Is everything alright?” Ash asked, perhaps a little anxiously because her
mother had, once, left a husband on what was supposed to be their
honeymoon.
“Wonderful, darling. We’re in Patagonia.” There was an infinitesimal
pause. “Or Paraguay. Peru?”
“South America,” Ash said helpfully.
“That’s the one,” said her mother “Everything’s beautiful and all in
Spanish, which does make it all sound more… passionate, doesn’t it?”
“I suppose,” Ash said, looking into the dismally brown-gray river. She’d
heard somewhere that at any one time there were at least a dozen bodies
bobbing along down there. “So if there aren’t any problems…”
“Yes, I’m calling to check on you,” her mother said. “You’re my only
child. Is that so wrong? I just want to know that you’re alright.”
“Mother, I’m almost forty years old, you don’t need to do welfare
checks.”
“You live alone, for all I know you choked to death on a steak three
weeks ago and no one’s found you yet,” retorted her mother.
“I’m sure the neighbors would have complained about the smell,” said
Ash. Later she cursed herself for this because perhaps, just perhaps, she’d
brought all of this on herself by mentioning the word neighbors. Maybe
she’s awakened some ancient neighbor spirit or something. “And anyway,
as you can tell, I’m perfectly fine.”
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