The Bee Charmer (Sweet Treat Series Book 2) by Jamallah Bergman Page B

get the hang of it. Would you like to try it?”
    Pamelia nervously giggled, “Um, I’ll think about that.”
    Pulling up to the building, the two ladies got out, headed to the door as Mrs. Hewitt opened it.
    All Pamelia could hear was machinery whirling and humming around her as several people were manning them. They walked up some stairs along the catwalk where she could really get a good look at everything. “Here is the office where my son Jeremy works at and it seems he’s not here. Let’s go and see if hubby is around.” When they went over to the office next door, Pamelia saw an older gentleman sitting at his desk.
    He was big in stature, wide shoulders and chest with short grey hair.
    When she walked inside, she noticed that he had very beautiful blue eyes that looked warm and happy.
    “Why, hello sweetheart, who do we have here?” He got up from his desk.
    Pamelia saw that he was not only big in stature but tall as well.
    “Weston dear, this is the new girl that I’m hiring for the farm. Do you remember Marlene that use to come to the restaurant all the time? Well, this is her niece, Pamelia.”
    Pamelia felt shocked by what she heard Mrs. Hewitt state. Did she say that she was hired?
    He came over to shake her hand and then smiled, “I can see the resemblance for sure. Well, it’s really great to have you as part of the Hewitt Family Pamelia, now Jeremy is the one you need to talk with as far as paperwork and all. I think he’s at the hives as always.”
    Pamelia looked over at Athena.
    She rolled her eyes. “Come on.”
    When they got to back to the golf cart Pamelia could hear Athena chuckle while turning on the cart. “I call my son the Bee Charmer. When Jeremy was young, he loved going with his dad to gather honey. We couldn’t keep him from going to the hives, playing in the fields and messing with the bees. One day, we found him without the protective bee clothing that we normally wear, so that we wouldn’t get stung and he was just a smiling and happy while the bees were buzzing and crawling all over him. I got scared because of course being a Mom, I thought he would get stung. But when we checked him over, he wasn’t stung at all, not one single sting on his body. Now, he doesn’t have to wear the protective clothing like the rest of us, he just walks around like nothing is going on.”
    “That’s insane. But I do have to ask you Mrs. Hewitt, did you say that I was hired?”
    “Yes, I did my dear. I’m going to hire you for the job. I can tell that you will do just fine here on the farm. I can see Marlene’s spitfire in those eyes of yours.”
    Pamelia couldn’t help but blush from her comment. It’d been a long time since anyone made that particular remark to her. She would hear from time to time how folks always thought that she was her Aunt Marlene’s child, instead of her mother’s because both were one in the same. From the way they both went off on someone who made them mad or when she was up to no good, how she would have that same mischievous twinkle in her eye. Yeah, she was indeed her Aunt’s favorite.
     
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    “Easy now, that’s it,” Jeremy told Ralph who was carefully taking out one of the wooden frames. He used the smoker to calm the bees down a bit, even though for him he didn’t need it but since Ralph was here, it needed to been used.
    “Looks pretty good huh, Jeremy,”
    He looked on either side of the frame which was capped with beeswax and filled with golden honey. “You’ve done really well, now all you have to do is just get the others out and replace them with the other frames. Then we can take them to get extracted.” He could hear someone coming up the road and saw the golf cart in view. “Continue on,” Jeremy slowly made his way from the hives as this seemed to let the bees get off of him quicker. When the cart stopped, he saw his mom along with someone he’d never seen before as they walked from the other side.
    The woman’s hair