Christmas On Nutcracker Court (2012)
“It was only half past three, so on any other day, she would have stuck around, hoping for a walk-in client to request a service, but with Max coming over for dinner, she needed to get home and start cooking.
She told herself that the two hundred dollars he was paying her for reading his manuscript would cover any services she might have missed out on by leaving before five this afternoon.
Hopefully, by the end of the weekend, she’d have those three hundred pages read and his check deposited int...o her account. She owed her landlord a payment on Monday, and by giving him a little extra than she’d planned, he might let them stay in the house through Christmas.
The two hundred dollars from Max wasn’t quite the miracle she’d been praying for, but she was grateful to have it just the same.
On her way home, she stopped at the market and picked up the fixings for tacos, something she hadn’t made in months. Knowing she ought to provide some kind of dessert for her guest, she also purchased a generic brand of vanilla ice cream and a jar of chocolate syrup.MoreLess
She told herself that the two hundred dollars he was paying her for reading his manuscript would cover any services she might have missed out on by leaving before five this afternoon.
Hopefully, by the end of the weekend, she’d have those three hundred pages read and his check deposited int...o her account. She owed her landlord a payment on Monday, and by giving him a little extra than she’d planned, he might let them stay in the house through Christmas.
The two hundred dollars from Max wasn’t quite the miracle she’d been praying for, but she was grateful to have it just the same.
On her way home, she stopped at the market and picked up the fixings for tacos, something she hadn’t made in months. Knowing she ought to provide some kind of dessert for her guest, she also purchased a generic brand of vanilla ice cream and a jar of chocolate syrup.MoreLess
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