A Wolfe Brothers Christmas by Jami Davenport

Author:Jami Davenport [Davenport, Jami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cedrona Enterprises
Published: 2019-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

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Sadie ran and ran and ran to get away from the arguing brothers. Why couldn’t people just be nice to each other? Why did they have to be mean?

She splashed through a puddle, not caring about her soaked shoes and wet feet. She was wearing a sweatshirt and jeans, not exactly warm enough for the chilly night.

The rain had stopped for a moment, but the clouds were dark and ugly. Soon it’d be raining again. Her feet pounded on the gravel road, harder and harder as she blindly ran away from the noise, not just in that house but in her head.

All she’d wanted for Christmas was a pony.

She tripped over a branch and fell, skinning her knees. She started crying. After crawling on her hands and knees for a short distance, she scrambled to her feet. The wind whipped her hair across her face, and a dog howled in the distance. It sounded like a big dog. Maybe one that tore little girls apart and ate them for dinner. Her daddy used to threaten her with dogs like that, said he’d throw her over the fence into the neighbor’s yard if she was bad. The neighbor’s dogs were mean. They snarled and bared their teeth. She was scared of them. He new neighbors didn’t have mean dogs, and her new daddy, Zeke, wasn’t mean, either. Not to her. But he was mean to his brothers, and his brothers were mean to him.

She saw a shadow on the road ahead and ducked down a trail. The trail was steep and crooked, and she fell a few more times before the trail ended on a rocky beach. She walked down the beach a ways and stopped. It was almost dark. She turned and looked for the trail back up the hill but couldn’t find it.

Her heart raced wildly. Did sea monsters live in the dark, angry water that beat against the shoreline? Would they come after her?

She wrapped her arms around her body and cried some more.

Sadie was lost and had no idea how to get home. She wailed in despair but her cries were swallowed up by the roaring wind and the churning water.

She should go back, but in some ways the beach was preferable to her new dad and her uncles yelling at each other. She couldn’t take any more yelling. She’d stay here for now.

She looked to the sky and wished Santa would swoop down in his sleigh and take her somewhere fun, maybe his toy workshop. Huddling on a rock, she watched as the waves crept closer and closer to her. The beach she’d walked down to get here disappeared into the black, angry water. The water was like a monster ready to gobble her up. The waves hit the bottom of the rock, and she tucked her legs closer to her body.

Even if she wanted to go back to that house, she didn’t think she could go back the way she’d come. She twisted and gazed up the steep bank.

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