Enlightened (EVE Series Book 2) by A. L. Waddington

Author:A. L. Waddington
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: United States, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Science Fiction, Teen & Young Adult, Time Travel, Historical, 19th Century, Paranormal & Fantasy
Publisher: Booktrope
Published: 2014-03-24T07:00:00+00:00

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I crawled under the covers as Mimi straightened up my clothes for school in the morning. I watched her stroll casually around my room, placing things here and there. Her constant presence in my life gave me a great deal of comfort. Eddie came in briefly and put some more wood on my fire and stoked it before he disappeared. Mimi came over and adjusted my covers tightly around my neck before she kissed my forehead and turned down my oil lamp and was gone.

Jackson’s gift was still lying in the little blue box on my night table. It glowed in the moonlight that danced around my room. The trivial little pocket watch that was responsible for opening up this wide new fascinating world to me no longer held the intense intrigue it once had. Instead, it now had turned into another frivolous trinket that resembled everything else that rested throughout my room.

I rolled over and closed my eyes tightly. Jackson’s words flooded my brain on the evolving world that I had not yet witnessed, nor now, had any desire to. The foreign concepts he had offered as explanations for it made no sense to my naive brain. As much as I truly desired and loved the idea of continuing my education and having the freedom to do so, I wasn’t sure if everything that was lost along the way for me to win that battle was truly worth the cost. I dearly loved my family. I could not imagine not having my brothers and their wives and children so close by. The idea of us all being spread out, perhaps across the country from one another, and only seeing each other a couple times a year, broke my heart. I considered my little nieces and nephews and how much I would miss out on with them if they were not living so close by.

I tried to imagine how my other self felt about not having a close relationship with Sidney or any of my extended family. I wondered if I was bothered by it or if it was just something I considered normal. It was weird to imagine fixing my own dinner every evening whenever I chose rather than sitting down every night with my family and discussing our days. How do people there ever really get to know each other with such informal ways of communication? Do the parents there know anything about their children and how they feel and what is going on in their lives? I seriously doubted it. It seemed to me though that everyone was too consumed with their own lives to take the time to get involved with their family. In my heart of hearts, I sincerely hoped that Jackson was exaggerating when he stated that this new structure was the norm and not the exception. I wanted so badly to believe that he had it reversed.

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