The Spotted Cottage by the Sea by Amelia Addler EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Amelia Addler
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Sheila never needed anyone’s help, and getting herself fired that morning
was no exception. All it took was one out-of-place box.
Her kids liked to joke about her love of boxes. Their house was
impeccably organized with them – long, flat boxes tucked under beds,
stuffed with out-of-season clothes; clear plastic boxes stacked in the pantry,
filled with rice or cereal or sugar; wicker boxes in the mud room, mostly
empty, but there to complete the aesthetic.
The girls’ Christmas presents were never in bags, but instead in
beautiful, patterned boxes wrapped exquisitely with ribbon. Sheila would
stay up until three in the morning getting the hand-made bows just right.
So, of course, when the special corrugated pink bakery box she’d
ordered came as a set of two, she couldn’t let one go to waste.
She filled the first box with her homemade donuts, as planned, neatly
layering and dusting them with powdered sugar.
The second box was never part of the plan – any plan – but it was so
perfect, so sturdy, she filled it with the potential solution to her longest-held
problem. It was a secret she’d had for decades; it was the story her mind
went to with every inane corporate icebreaker, but the one story she never
could—nor did—tell.
Keeping them both in the trunk of her car had seemed logical at the time.
She didn’t want the secret box to accidentally be discovered in the house.
Though the girls had all moved out – her youngest just a few weeks ago, off
to college – they could pop in at any moment and be tempted by the
promise of baked goods.
No, the car was the right place to hide it, and that morning, in the
parking lot at work, she threw the trunk open and butterflies took off in her
stomach.
“How awful would it be if I picked up the wrong box?” Sheila thought to
herself.
She laughed and laughed, then leaned over and did just that.
It was unfortunate. It wasn’t the sort of day to get fired, the lazy Tuesday
after a holiday, the air sharp and cool, a relief from the heaviness of the
recent heat wave. Labor Day had brought rain and the city breathed a
collective sigh of relief, opening its windows to the wide cerulean skies.
Sheila loved Seattle in the fall, and even more so here in Lynnwood,
which she referred to as Seattle to non-natives, though it was a little more
north and a little less glamorous. It was where she’d raised her kids, where
she’d watched her life crack to pieces, and where she’d found the strength
to put it back together again.
This was her final act. These donuts were the key.
She stood and took a deep breath, savoring the moment. Accounting
wasn’t the most glamorous profession, she’d admit, but she was good at it.
So good they’d promoted her right up to now, when she’d show them she
deserved to be a senior manager.
The new office would be nice. The raise would be appreciated. But what
she desperately needed was the bonus.
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