Goodnight Moo by Mollie Cox Bryan

Author:Mollie Cox Bryan [Cox Bryan, Mollie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2020-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Brynn hated to admit defeat, but her body wouldn’t allow anything else. The trip to see Josh and his family was more than she bargained for. Becky insisted on her eating, but she went to bed. As she lay in her bed, she listened to the sound of thunder in the distance and wondered if the fair would get canceled again tonight.

The next morning when she awakened, she heard voices downstairs. She rolled over. She was so tired, her head felt heavy and it ached. She continued to sleep. She woke up later feeling a bit better, but glancing at the clock, she was surprised to realize she’d slept until 9:00 AM.

She sat up and glanced out the window at her cows grazing in the startlingly green field, dotted with newly sprouted dandelions.

She stood and reached for her robe, padded down the stairs to face the day.

“Well, you’re alive.” Becky sat at the kitchen table with her laptop.

“Aunt Brynn!” came a voice from the computer.

“Lily?” Brynn walked over to see her niece’s sweet face.

“It’s called face time!” she said. “We can see each other!”

As she and her five-year-old niece talked with each other, Becky poured Brynn coffee. “Thank you.”

After she and Lily caught up, they rang off until tomorrow. Brynn felt a pang of guilt. “Are you missing her?”

“Of course,” Becky answered. “But I’m needed here. And she’s having a blast at her friend’s house, now that camp is over. Her mother is one of those stay-at-home moms who come up with countless activities for the kids. She’s being kept busy.”

As she drank her coffee, Brynn slowly awakened even more.

“You must have been exhausted,” Becky said. “The trip was too much for you.”

Brynn nodded. “I feel like an old lady.”

“You have a concussion. It’s nothing to mess around with.”

“I hear ya. And so does my body.” She slumped over the table and stared into her coffee as if it held answers to all the questions in the universe.

“Can I get you something? Eggs? Toast?” Becky asked.

“Toast only. I don’t think I could eat anything else this morning.”

Becky walked over to the counter and sliced bread. “Wes and his dad were here earlier.”

“Good news?” Brynn’s heart jumped at the thought of it.

“No news.” She slid the bread into the toaster and pushed down. “None.”

“Where is Wes?”

“He’s cleaning the barn and milking parlor with Max and Nathaniel. Isn’t that nice? I promised them a good lunch.”

“I’m sure you can manage. I’ll help.”

“No, you won’t,” she said with a scolding tone. “I’ve already got soup on and I’m going to make cheese sandwiches. It will be easy and fine.”

Brynn’s thoughts turned to Chelsea. “Do you think Chelsea will stop by or e-mail or anything?”

“I’ve been considering that.” The toast popped up, and she spread thick salted butter on each slice. “I think you appealed to her ego. For a sixteen-year-old, I think it’s heady stuff. But I got this weird vibe from her parents.”

“I did, too. There’s more going on there than what we know, of course.

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