Surprise Melody Flintkote. Part Two
Copyright© 2019 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 40
“Really?”
“Really.”
“Okay.”
She took off to the back and was gone a good fifteen minutes. Eventually a door opened.
“Is there an actual Grundy in Virginia, USA?”
“Yup ... about 12 miles from Frogmorton.”
“Honest?”
“Cross my heart and hope to die,” I said.
“I always thought Grundy was a joke,” she said.
“Nope ... real place,” I said.
“Frogmorton?”
“I grew up there until I sailed around the world.” Then I confessed, “It’s a National Forest now.”
“Yup ... you’re her,” she said. “I never heard of a woman named Surprise before.”
“Mom was surprised I wasn’t afterbirth,” I said. “So was the nurse.”
“Shingle Bank and Trust of Grundy, Virginia is paying your bills ... evidently ... you are the ‘Trust’ part.” She looked ... confused. “Where are your siblings?”
“Russia,” I qualified that, “Maybe.”
“Maybe?”
“They may have sailed by now,” I said. “Or they might be waiting for an ‘interesting event.’”
“I heard the quotation marks,” she said. “Childbirth?”
“Cyn was much farther along ... and Zoe would be right behind her,” I said. “Then it would be my turn.” That part of the announcement was tinged with chagrin.
“You don’t sound happy,” she said.
“The evidence presented in the ear twisting wife or girlfriend has given me reason to think he may have been a cheater.”
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