by Kylie Logan
“Actually, I’ve been looking forward to checking out the house,” I admitted instead. “Everyone says it’s amazing and when Mr. Findley lived there, no one was allowed near it.”
“Oooh!” Sister Mary Jean shivered. “Sounds like something out of a Gothic novel. I can’t wait. You don’t suppose it’s haunted, do you?”
Sister Liliosa laughed and picked up the other bag of salads. “If it is, I think we can handle it, right?”
Sister Mary Jean nodded.
Sister Margaret, her eyes wide and her steps shuffling, mumbled something about extra prayers and angels.
Sister Gabriel didn’t say a thing. In fact, when she followed the other sisters toward the door and I stepped in back of her, she flinched and shot a look over her shoulder. Like she’d just remembered I was there, she offered a thin smile.
“No worries,” I told her. “I’m not much for ghost stories, either.”
“Things that go bump in the night?” From out on the front porch, Sister Liliosa’s silvery laugh flowed through the house on the tail of a spring breeze. “There are ten of us at this retreat, remember. And if there’s one thing I know for sure, it’s never bet against ten nuns.”
I stepped out onto the front porch just as Sister Liliosa stepped back to allow the other nuns to go down the steps ahead of her, and I would have followed right along if I didn’t stop to shoot a dirty look at Jerry Garcia. Jerry? He’s the cat that lives next door and loves to lounge (and do other less sanitary things) on my front porch. I glared at Jerry. Completely unconcerned and ever unrepentant, Jerry tossed his head and went right on doing his cat thing.
The momentary pause gave Sister Liliosa a chance to step in front of me. Her grin melted. “I hope you’ll convey our apologies to that handsome young man who left here in such a hurry when we arrived,” she said. “I’m sorry if we interrupted anything.”
My jaw had already dropped when she gave me a wink and allowed her gaze to slip to my feet.
“He has your head in such a whirl, you’re leaving the house in your bunny slippers.”
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