Bake Until Golden: A Novel (The Potluck Catering Club) - Plot & Excerpts
The way she had been when I was a child. Her lovely voice sang each of the haunting verses of the Elton John song “Candle in the Wind” while glowing candles illuminated her beauty. As her song faded, a breeze blew through her hair and the candles flickered. She whispered, You never knew me, you never knew me. Her beauty diminished into shadows as each candle gave way to the darkness. For an instant, her wrinkled face reappeared in a final flicker of light. Her eyes, grayed in death, opened and her pale lips quivered as she spoke, directly to me . . . You never knew me. I awoke, my heart pounding, seconds before my alarm radio activated to Elton singing the same song. I sat up, then I pulled my knees to my chest in a hug that wrapped around my legs and allowed me to rub the goose bumps from my arms. I got up and splashed my face with cold water before looking in the mirror, only to see how my mother looked some thirty years ago. Blinking away the cobwebs, I readied myself for my Sunday day shift, glad I’d at least had Saturday off, and glad I’d actually taken the time to make my mother’s chicken and rice casserole the night before.
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