Accidental Knight by Nicole Snow EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Nicole Snow
- ISBN: 978-1070611846
- Language: English
- Genre: Military Romance, Contemporary Women Fiction
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- Page: 392
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS (BELLA)
My nerves can’t take much more of this.
I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and cringe because it’s
only the beginning.
Oh, Gramps, I miss you so much already. But a big teary-eyed
part of me is glad that you aren’t here to see all this bickering.
I don’t know what’s worse. My grandfather being gone, or the
fact that his death hasn’t made a dent in my parents’
egomania.
Using a wadded-up Kleenex to wipe at the tears slipping out of
the corners of my eyes, I open them slowly and take a good,
long look at reality.
You’d think the sadness would be dried up by now, if only for
a few hours.
But it’s like I’ve been crying for years rather than days.
Grandpa Jonah was the only stable, sure thing in my life.
Now, the bottom just fell out. There’s nothing left to paper
over this circus.
My parents want money. Nothing new. It’s all they’ve ever
wanted, but they didn’t even wait until the funeral was over to
start making big plans.
Dad’s new pet winery in Northern California.
Mom’s new sauna, complete with a Japanese garden that will
no doubt be assembled by the very best crew flown in from
Tokyo.
New harebrained investment schemes that’ll just leave them
poorer and angrier, trying to turn a certain fortune into a
golden goose bigger than their appetites.
God. You should’ve cut them off years ago, Gramps.
A twinge of guilt strikes me. I’m hardly better than them.
My college, my failed business ventures, always had one
patient financial backer. Jonah Reed.
My parents claim they paid for it all, but I know better.
Gramps did. The greatest man to ever walk this earth.
The mold was broken several times over when he was born,
and there are days, like today, when I wonder if Dad inherited
a single good gene from his father.
If I had the energy, I might chastise them for being so
shameless, so greedy, so…predictable.
But it wouldn’t do any good.
They’d barely arrived in time for the funeral. Not that there
was anything for any of us to do.
Gramps had his goodbye meticulously planned.
One of his employees, along with his lawyer, had all the
details taken care of. Including today’s meeting.
At least I’d arrived in North Dakota yesterday rather than
rushing to the funeral home five minutes before the service
started this morning. That dishonor belongs to my parents.
Both so eager to get to the lawyer’s office for the will, they
didn’t even go to the cemetery for the burial.
No church service for Gramps, of course. No loud, chestthumping eulogies. He went out of this world with the same
amount of pomp and circumstance as he’d arrived. The quiet,
simple kind.
The countless flowers, plants, and cards that people sent from
every corner of the country were proof of how many lives he’d
touched, though. I read every one of them this morning, alone,
at the funeral home, sitting beside the small urn that contained
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