High Cotton by Debby Mayne

Author:Debby Mayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gilead Publishing
Published: 2018-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

I wish I hadn’t told Digger that Shay has known about my job for a while. When he said he planned to call her and ask why she didn’t tell him, I realized that I was betraying the person who had to risk her brother’s trust to protect me.

My mama used to tell me that lying is never good because not only do you have to remember who you told what to, you wind up with the lies pilin’ up on each other and eventually falling like dominoes. I’m pretty sure that’s what’s happening now.

Sometimes the guilt I feel overwhelms me and practically renders me useless. After seeing Shay in church yesterday, I’m worried she might never speak to me again. Normally, she makes her way over to me for a quick chat before she goes to the Bible study, but not yesterday. When I glanced up to look for her, she’d disappeared.

If it weren’t for having to take care of Jeremy’s needs, I might have called in sick today. I look at my child’s face that’s smeared with grape jelly. He should be able to find his mouth at his age, but he gets more food on it than in it.

Now the guilt kicks me even harder. Have I somehow neglected our youngest child just to fulfill something inside me that should have waited another couple of years?

“Mo’.” He thrusts his sippy cup toward me.

I smile down at his sweet little face as I take the sticky cup from his pudgy little hands. “Sure, sweetheart.”

I pour half apple juice and half water into his cup before snapping the lid back on and handing it to him. He grins up at me. “Kankoo.”

At least he knows he’s supposed to say “thank you” when I do something for him. “You’re welcome, sweetheart.”

He chugs some of his juice before putting the cup on the table. “Skoo?”

“Yes, you have school today, but we have to get you cleaned up first. Are you finished?”

With a nod, he extends his hands toward me. My heart melts as I pick him up and carry him to the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth. Out of all of our children, Jeremy has been the easiest baby and toddler. I’m sure I was a nervous mom with Trey. Hallie and Brett couldn’t have been more different, and they fought constantly. I think I spent more time breaking up their fights than lovin’ on them like I do Jeremy.

Maybe I’m not such a bad mom to Jeremy, after all. He seems well adjusted, and he enjoys his friends at our church preschool, where he’s learning praise songs and short Scripture verses. He doesn’t speak well, but he can make noise and sort of carry a tune. As much as I tried to teach the older kids when they were younger, they squirmed until I let them go play with their toys. Jeremy might be developing some of his skills later than the others, but he’s getting a more solid Christian foundation.

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