Alpha Farm, Facing Your Demons (Prepper Chicks Series Book 2) by Annie Berdel & Annie Berdel

Author:Annie Berdel & Annie Berdel [Berdel, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-20T23:00:00+00:00

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Emma watched the sight from the kitchen window. It was hard to believe that the scene playing out before her harbored any effects of the last few months. Here were mommas sitting around a picnic table chatting while their small ones played in the yard around them. A sweet, rosy cheeked baby boy was cooing beside his momma in a wind up swing. Contentment was drifting along the swirls of wind that encircled and ensnared the tendrils of hair on the young babes running and chasing each other. Autumn was almost gone. They wouldn’t have many more days outside to play this year.

Emma’s stomach clinched as the thought of winter approaching. Autumn had always been her favorite time of the year, but now it was like the grim reaper knocking on the door announcing that doom had arrived.

How many out there will not survive until spring? She thought as her eyes cascaded to the trees that ran along the edge of the far field, their leaves already showing hint of transformation into the coldness of winter. There was no stopping mother nature.

Turning from the window, Emma grabbed the kettle from her wood stove and began filling it with water, her eyes once again falling on the ones she loved outside. She would fight for them with every breath she had. They were her loves, her reason for being. She had spent so much time giving them everything she could when they were babies, everything except for her time. Dixon walked over to her, sensing her distress. Giving him a quick scratch behind his ear, she lifted his chin to look into his brown eyes. “We got this, boy.” she whispered to him, a secret once again shared with her best friend.

“Damn” she swore as the water overflowed the kettle. While water was not in short supply, she knew every drop was valuable. And then there were the demons that had crept in to remind her of what she had sacrificed. What she had made her kids sacrifice growing up. How she wish she could go back and change things. To not miss the winter concerts because she had to be in a meeting. To be there when a heart was hurting and just hug them but couldn’t because she was “the boss” and her time was required elsewhere. The fights between her and Tommy because, well because he wanted something to be bought and it would mean more time away from their kids. The resentment because he wasn’t stepping into his role.

Her eyes drifted to where her daughter, Lauren was sitting. Her mind flashed back to when Lauren was three years old, sitting at Emma’s desk at work, crying because all she wanted to do was go home. Emma felt her heart break at the memory. She wanted to go back and fix so many things but she couldn’t. All she had was the future and the ability to love them. Was it enough?

Emma sat the kettle on the wood stove and took a deep breath.

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