Marie Ferrarella

Innkeeper's Daughter


Скачать книгу

father was writing a history of the inn.”

      That wasn’t the kind of story Dan usually worked on, she couldn’t help thinking. He wrote things that wound up on the front page, or of late, in a blog and sometimes in front of a camera. This sounded as if he was working on a book.

      “What inn?” she asked, confused.

      Was she serious? Wyatt wondered. So, she hadn’t known, either. That seemed rather strange. But then, his father had only told him last week—just before he’d extracted that promise from him.

      “This inn.”

      Alex stared at him. “This isn’t some practical joke, is it? Uncle Dan was just here a few weeks ago. He never mentioned this to me.... You’re serious?”

      “Why wouldn’t I be?”

      “Because I didn’t know anything about it,” she snapped.

      Ah, he thought. So that’s it. She’s upset because she knew everything that was going on at the inn at any given time.

      And she hadn’t known about this.

      Of course that would bother her almost as much as his surprising her with a funeral here without any advance warning. No matter what he did and for what reason, he upset her. Always had, and he didn’t see a way around it.

      “He got all sorts of notes from your father when he got started,” Wyatt said, proving just how committed his father had been to the project. “Letters, files, photographs, copies of old ledgers...”

      Her jaw dropped.

      He hesitated before adding, “If you didn’t know about it, maybe it was supposed to be a surprise.” All he knew was that his father had asked him to finish it for him, and he’d said the publisher had given him a deadline, which he was to try to keep to.

      “A surprise? For whom?” she asked incredulously.

      Wyatt said the first thing that occurred to him. “For the rest of you. You and your sisters. I think he envisioned it as a sort of commemorative book on the bed-and-breakfast’s 120th anniversary next year.”

      Конец ознакомительного фрагмента.

      Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес».

      Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию на ЛитРес.

      Безопасно оплатить книгу можно банковской картой Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, со счета мобильного телефона, с платежного терминала, в салоне МТС или Связной, через PayPal, WebMoney, Яндекс.Деньги, QIWI Кошелек, бонусными картами или другим удобным Вам способом.

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEASABIAAD/4RJ9RXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgABwESAAMAAAABAAEAAAEaAAUA AAABAAAAYgEbAAUAAAABAAAAagEoAAMAAAABAAIAAAExAAIAAAAUAAAAcgEyAAIAAAAUAAAAhodp AAQAAAABAAAAnAAAAMgAAABIAAAAAQAAAEgAAAABQWRvYmUgUGhvdG9zaG9wIDcuMAAyMDEzOjA2 OjIwIDA3OjE4OjQ4AAAAAAOgAQADAAAAAf//AACgAgAEAAAAAQAABXigAwAEAAAAAQAACKoAAAAA AAAABgEDAAMAAAABAAYAAAEaAAUAAAABAAABFgEbAAUAAAABAAABHgEoAAMAAAABAAIAAAIBAAQA AAABAAABJgICAAQAAAABAAARTwAAAAAAAABIAAAAAQAAAEgAAAAB/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEASABI AAD/7QAMQWRvYmVfQ00AAv/uAA5BZG9iZQBkgAAAAAH/2wCEAAwICAgJCAwJCQwRCwoLERUPDAwP FRgTExUTExgRDAwMDAwMEQwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwBDQsLDQ4NEA4OEBQO Dg4UFA4ODg4UEQwMDAwMEREMDAwMDAwRDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDP/AABEI AIAAUQMBIgACEQEDEQH/3QAEAAb/xAE/AAABBQEBAQEBAQAAAAAAAAADAAECBAUGBwgJCgsBAAEF AQEBAQEBAAAAAAAAAAEAAgMEBQYHCAkKCxAAAQQBAwIEAgUHBggFAwwzAQACEQMEIRIxBUFRYRMi cYEyBhSRobFCIyQVUsFiMzRygtFDByWSU/Dh8WNzNRaisoMmRJNUZEXCo3Q2F9JV4mXys4TD03Xj 80YnlKSFtJXE1OT0pbXF1eX1VmZ2hpamtsbW5vY3R1dnd4eXp7fH1+f3EQACAgECBAQDBAUGBwcG BTUBAAIRAyExEgRBUWFxIhMFMoGRFKGxQiPBUtHwMyRi4XKCkkNTFWNzNPElBhaisoMHJjXC0kST VKMXZEVVNnRl4vKzhMPTdePzRpSkhbSVxNTk9KW1xdXl9VZmdoaWprbG1ub2JzdHV2d3h5ent8f/ 2gAMAwEAAhEDEQA/AO8YwHK6e/du2tsg6ayW/uoon7ZrMG3hw3Dn81zfoKDGxkYR26MFm5wGgJLe URtbhmF4bDd8lzTGhP5zfovUgIs69FlGhp1/Y1Onw7pYs5bZbua0gnbDdjvo/R97d25TtA9Y+BDf PsO6ng0X1dNpx7GkXNe7c0GPH8/3MU3UWOs3beWh0ny0PH5yMCB+KpRulmM3tgcd/DVMenYpaQ6s DzB1RzTsrc9zTubECfH4fSUW2jh2h7TolxHoU8I2IaNGI0WGtzpg6DtH/kkZ00QGSe0nj71ZLWu1 BE/ihvYWg7gC06QU7is6o4QBoyqyN4AdoUdsFUdjQ6a4bGhGv5UdryBpqgR2QD3bG1JC9U+CSbRX WH//0N9ufmkAtybS0iWne6D/ACQ/dtcijOzRr9otI5A3OMj85v0vpMXENrx8Y78a2/Cd4Nks/tMk sf8A2mKzV1nqtYAZl41rQZDn1ODvm1npponHyTT2deXlWEs+03GREteZjxZ9L9I1PXmZLmCywdRr 3Vst2ud7pe/0/S27NvqVbPWu938yuWHUut6V22Y21437BU4y139Vx9qvPyqfUNeRVW1wMaucwPPG 87hs2ub9GqtOBBFjoqna+3ZTt+1nUC9nqOYxrxLtjm1tdS1zQ25l7X+tj+7+a9RWhkWWPaDTnmS4 P1G1rm1jJ1ds+i6z9Tb/AML/AMC+uxc7U+rcMcUs9QbrMZ/qE7tPdRwPpK/i5eG8C841bauLT6ji WOBkPc3b9Brv5z/g/wDi0YkXvuggum29xYx4o6gA70xtJAeN3qs/SM2/4L02vyNv+lqVqlwewvtf aA72hmQRptP0mt2Vqj6DBocOsRA/nj2/sIleNTy1rKXu0cGkuETI9xj/AKlSiOurGZdm26kgbme8 eAKTdzR4juq7acir3NbIOh2mR+CI3Isbo9pA+CdX1WgjqKS+sf3Sko/aG+I+5JCvBNju/wD/0YX1 2bNt9ZAPJcyP+k1VHtx6XOAr3MaCRDXuOjbbI9v0t3pfSQej2XftHGqY57m2WBhqBMO3e3bsCo/t LqV2acd99lbH2uk1+wt2ud7Gbfgq/jtXiverx6vTw6sh1ZYwyKnOkDZPu2uj82z2/wBdWWEP9gBL XabSNwPl7f8A0msl/UM+j6s4Xp3vbuzchpeTuJDGt2bnO/ruR+ldfsxsd+Xecdrq3APsfXGhPps3 ek36T3bm/wA2pBm4KqxoFpgJbgFv5PS8AtZ6VdlOTWdz9h2gOH0bK2N+jx+dUo5FrcMl1dRuybXt ddVWQ07C129zt7tnqvs+g1tf816ivt6/h9TLMC3YbrHtbX6bt0OJhpDbf/IrN6xXjHOyHYwJqdYW b3SHHY