CHAPTER 29
“I think Peaches has really taken a liking to you,” Grandma Lucy remarked.
Jillian had lost track of how long she and her grandmother had spent in the barn. It might have been five minutes or thirty, but she couldn’t even remember all that they talked about. Grandma Lucy would make a comment about one of the goats or ask Jillian something about her family, and then all of a sudden she’d break out into prayer, and then when she was finished, she’d go right back to her conversation with Jillian without so much as an amen. It was sometimes hard to figure out if she was talking to God or someone else at any specific moment.
“What does Connie have planned for you to do tomorrow?” she asked. “Are you working in the store all day?”
Jillian shook her head. “I have that doctor appoin
