Harlequin Love Inspired December 2019--Box Set 2 of 2 by Carrie Lighte

Author:Carrie Lighte
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

The next day, Saturday, Reese had to dig a path from the road to the barn. Six inches of heavy snow had fallen during the night. Now snow-lined branches pointed toward a cloudy sky that promised to yield more of the white stuff soon.

The impending bad weather matched Reese’s mood. And it wasn’t just about Gabby; it was about the future of the Rescue Haven program. What if they couldn’t show their effectiveness to Mr. Romano? What if the program died for a lack of funding?

It was pure folly to depend so heavily on one donor, and if Reese had time, he’d be out pounding on doors trying to drum up more support. There was a stack of grant applications on his desk that needed filling out, a complicated process. And there were reports to be written so that they didn’t lose the minimal funding they already had.

But he didn’t have time to work on any of that, because he had to shovel snow and organize the boys to do a performance that seemed destined to be a disaster.

He’d barely gotten the path shoveled clear when parents started dropping boys off, most of them stressed and complaining about their icy commute to work.

The boys’ moods seemed as gloomy as the weather. Gloomy as their parents’ and Reese’s moods, or maybe he was just projecting. But no, he thought as he listened to their complaints. They were really cranky today.

“I ain’t working on that show again.” That was Wolf. And when the biggest and oldest and most influential kid complained, the others were bound to follow suit.

“This is getting to be like school,” David said. Reese could have been glad the two of them agreed on something, but unfortunately, it was something negative.

“It’s my vacation,” said Connor, “and I coulda stayed home in bed, but my mom said I had to come here.”

The negative attitudes seemed to be as contagious as a bad epidemic of flu, and they shook Reese out of his worries about the financing of the program. He wanted to save the Rescue Haven program, desperately wanted it. But what was the use if the program was a drag and no boys wanted to come?

He was tempted to just declare a free, fun day. But the show needed work, and a lot of it; it just wasn’t very good. Not only that, but these particular boys didn’t do well with unstructured time.

He rubbed the back of his neck and looked upward, hoping God or his memory would supply him with a good idea. And something came to him. When he’d been doing carpentry and hit a rough patch, rather than pounding the work out anyway, he’d go off into nature. A few hours of hiking or chopping wood for the local farmers had usually given him the inspiration he needed.

The boys needed inspiration for the show, and here they were in the middle of a beautiful, snowy place. There had to be a way to get them outdoors and active.

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