It’s #BookQW and Luna is in a ‘jam’.
More from Chapter 3:
As much as Luna wanted to go, she’d been dreading the conversation with Papa. She had to have it at the right time, when Papa wasn’t drinking. He’d started keeping whiskey at home this summer, just when she’d gotten serious with Salm. Luna hadn’t asked her father directly if that was the reason, and none of her sideways questioning had gotten him to confess what was bothering him. She hadn’t dared to bring it up with her younger sisters.
“Is it that bad, dear?” Lady Anemone called from the hall.
“Aye,” she muttered. “Who will care for Stella if I leave home for good?” Her youngest sister would be without her for five days while she was gone with Salm… If only Papa hadn’t started drinking. That was another conversation—
Lady Anemone poked her head around the doorjamb. “Are you all right?”
Luna startled. The caulking—she really looked at it now. “Uh, fine, thanks.” She ran a fingernail along the tattered edge. “It looks half out already. No water damage below, is there?”
On the ground level, they checked the cart shed with a torch and found no signs of water. Mr. Smith seemed suitably impressed that she’d thought of this and agreed to her fee for the repairs. “Could you also do the painting?”
“I might be able to,” Luna said, surprising herself. Why had she said that when she was to go away with Salm? She was looking forward to the trip…she thought. Five days with Salm also meant he’d have time to pressure her for an answer. She liked Salm. A lot. She just wasn’t sure his plans for the future were right for her. Leaving her sisters, living on a schooner…
She hadn’t seen him in two weeks, but now that work was coming her way, she hated to pass it up. She plastered on a smile for Mr. Smith and said, “I’ll check my lighthouse schedule.”
There. That would give her time to sort through her own confused thoughts about Salm and whether she truly should go away with him.
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