How to Knit a Love Song: A Cypress Hollow Yarn by Rachael Herron

Author:Rachael Herron [Herron, Rachael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 0061841293
Google: Ujpmfpw5huQC
Amazon: 0061841293
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-two

Now, the longest rows are for rejoicing! Knit on, sail through, you most amazing of all knitters!

—E.C.

Abigail was filthy. She could still smell the dirt from the hillside in her nose, and sometimes caught the scent of left-over “eau de horse” from her jeans. Janet had driven her home from the hospital and dropped her off with a kiss and a promise to come back soon. Tom had watched wistfully as Janet drove away. Then he’d asked Abigail if he could help her with anything, with getting dinner or making it up the stairs in her new walking-boot that she’d have to wear for a few days. Abigail had instead asked him to check the fence at the cottage with her.

They found Merino, her stupid boy alpaca, standing there. Right there, looking at her like she was late to bring him dinner. From the fluff left on the wire of the fence, she could tell that he’d walked back in as easily as he’d broken out. She almost cried, out of both relief and sheer annoyance, when she saw him standing there next to Tussah. She fed them, and got close enough to him to rub his side.

Abigail knew the fence had looked fine when she moved in the alpacas, but it now had a man-sized hole in it. Tom looked at it, too, and shook his head. “That’s been cut.”

Abigail didn’t know how both she and Cade could have missed the hole, but there it was. Just another thing to work on fixing. Tom showed her how to fill in the gaps with wire, then he looked at her exhausted face and did it for her.

Then Abigail hobbled back to the house.

When she entered it, she realized that when she’d told Cade that she wasn’t scared of him, she’d lied a little. He’d advised her to avoid him, and she planned on it. She’d be strong and stand up for her rights tomorrow. Tonight she’d hide in her room until she heard him go to bed, and then she’d have a bath.

Abigail napped lightly with Clara by her side and waited until she heard his bedroom door shut before she went into the bathroom. She wished she could take a shower downstairs, in relative safety, but while she was allowed to remove the walking-boot to bathe and sleep, her ankle was wrapped and she wasn’t supposed to unwrap it until she saw the doctor again in three days.

Abigail sat on the floor of the bathroom and waited for the tub to fill. She kept her eyes on the spigot at all times. It wouldn’t flood again on her watch.

The bathroom was right next to Cade’s room. She didn’t like being this close to him. She couldn’t even close the door all the way: it shut, but the latch-hook that should snap into the door frame wouldn’t latch, so a push would open it. There was no lock.

He wouldn’t bother her anyway, she reassured herself. He didn’t want to see her, either.

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