Fortune Teller by Jana DeLeon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jana DeLeon
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I LIFTED THE CRATE OFF THE FLOOR AND WAS SURPRISED AT HOW LIGHT
it was given its size. I looked over at Gertie, who was paying Walter for
what felt like empty crates.
“Are you buying air?” I asked. “Doesn’t feel like anything is in this.”
“Jell-O,” Gertie said.
I stared. “You’re buying two crates of Jell-O? Why?”
“Nope,” Ida Belle said. “That sounds like a question that will lead to
things I don’t want to hear about. I’m just going to assume she’s about to
visit fifty recent tonsillectomy patients and go on my merry way.”
Gertie shot a sly look at Walter. “I bet Walter wouldn’t mind hearing
about my plans for that Jell-O. Might get some ideas…”
Walter turned an adorable three shades of red and fled the front of the
store.
“See?” Ida Belle pointed at his retreating figure. “You’ve gone and
scared the man.”
“How scared can he be?” Gertie asked. “He’s married to you.”
Ida Belle and I grabbed the two crates, and Gertie tucked her receipt in
her purse as we headed out to Ida Belle’s SUV, loaded up the crates, and
then climbed in.
“I need you to swing by Nora’s place before you drop me off at home,”
Gertie said as Ida Belle pulled away from downtown.
“Uh-oh,” I said.
Ida Belle gave her a suspicious look that quickly shifted to horrified as
she put it all together. Nora was a Sinful local with lots of cash that she used
almost exclusively to travel the world in search of the best buzz. At some
point, she’d decided she could do a better job than her suppliers and had
become an amateur chemist, which might not have been so problematic if
she hadn’t also tacked amateur pharmacist onto her many professional
titles.
“Why do you need to stop at Nora’s?” Ida Belle asked. “I thought your
legs were better.”
Just the week before, Gertie had put her legs through the wringer with a
runaway horse ride and then this whole church/pigeon/catching-on-fire
thing—Gertie caught on fire, not the pigeon. To help her out, Nora had
hooked her up with some of her magic pills, consisting of something that
everyone was afraid to ask about.
Gertie nodded. “My legs are better. I just need to pick up something for
the party.”
“The party is at Nora’s. Why are you taking things away?”
“Because I’m making gummy worms with Nora’s new home brew. I
was going to use our new Sinful Ladies grape, but we sold it all at the
Mardi Gras festival on Saturday and we don’t have time to make more
before tomorrow.”
Ida Belle stared in her rearview mirror in dismay. “You’re going to
infuse children’s candy with something from Nora’s stash?”
“Children won’t be eating them. Only adults are invited to the party.”
“The word ‘adult’ is up for discussion.”
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