Chapter 24
This can’t be happening. I need to talk with Miss Lucille.
Boss Daddy must see something funny in my stricken expression, because his grin widens. “Welcome to the family, son. Not my first choice, but she could’ve done worse.”
He means me. “I…I can’t—” I rein in my whirling thoughts. “I have to talk with Lucy.”
This earns me a laugh. “Ho-oh! So it’s Lucy now, is it?” His eyes twinkle with mirth the same way hers do.
I hurry to correct myself. “No, I mean Miss Lucille. I need to…we can’t…is she here?”
“I reckon she’s upstairs.” When he leans back in his chair, his whole body seems to expand like a frog puffing up. “Go on and wait in the parlor. I’ll send for her. I’m sure you two have a lot to hammer out before September.”
The wedding. God. We have a lot to talk about, tru
