In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld

Author:Joyce Hinnefeld
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Published: 2008-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

When Addie went inside, Tom sat down again. Surely that had been the right suggestion, he hoped. Better for her to see Cora in person; she’d be less likely to go off on one of her harangues then.

He watched as Scarlet turned and began climbing the rocky, winding path. How much easier would her own imminent high school years be? he wondered. No one like Richard to deal with, but they were not, he knew, the easiest parents. Or so he feared. And yet she never seemed to mind the way they lived; she loved traveling as much as they did, and Nisky Creek and her neighborhood friends still seemed to fill her days and satisfy her. But how much longer would she travel contentedly with them, laugh with them, climb into their bed in the morning to read the comics?

As she rounded a curve below the overhanging deck where he sat, Tom lost sight of his daughter for a moment. He held his breath, seized, suddenly, with something like panic.

Then there she was, climbing the last steps up to the deck—her wild, windswept hair, her wind-chapped face and open brown eyes, like her mother’s, like his own.

“Cormorants can’t hold a candle to great blue herons,” she said, plopping down in a chair, then pulling off her sand-filled sneakers and emptying them, one by one, over the deck’s railing. “They are downright boring to watch, if you ask me.”

“Boring?”he gasped in mock horror. “You find cormorants boring?”

Such happiness was what Tom thought then, reaching over to pull playfully on his daughter’s tangled hair. Such beauty and such happiness. How in God’s name might he make it last?

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