Jenny's Wish by Indiana Wake

Author:Indiana Wake [Wake, Indiana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SweetBookHub.com
Published: 2019-06-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Jenny had felt nervous all day. Watching her mother prepare vegetables for the evening meal, Jenny had found herself entirely unable to help. Her mother seemed hardly to notice, peeling and chopping, rolling out pastry, tidying up as she went along. It appeared that Polly Swain was suffering a few nerves of her own and was obviously glad of the constant work. Anything to keep her mind at bay.

“So, he’ll be here by seven,” Polly said for the tenth time that day.

“Yes, Mama, he’ll be here by seven.”

“I must say, I’m surprised this young man has agreed to meet your family so soon.”

“I’m not. He’s a good man and he knows what it means to me,” Jenny said.

Polly smiled and Jenny felt quietly angry with her—this was all her mother’s doing and it was all so unnecessary. Worse still, Polly assumed that her daughter wanted this. What a terrible joke that was. It meant so much to Jenny because she knew that if Arlon had not agreed to come, she would likely never see him again. This was what her mother did, and it most certainly wasn’t pretty.

Jenny had hovered about the house for hours, feeling almost as if she had put her mother to some trouble and ought to stay and help. She felt stifled by her own character’s propensity to dual with itself; her mother had caused this, why did she feel she was putting her out?

In the end, Jenny gave into her stronger self.

“If you don’t need me for anything, I’m going to get myself changed for dinner.” She spoke assertively, something which always made her mother raise her eyebrows.

If only Polly Swain knew how tired her daughter had become of this way of living. If only she realized that Arlon Hurst would not even have to ask her twice; she would run with him if he gave her the opportunity. Jenny knew she liked him, but did she already care for him so much that she would be prepared to spend the rest of her life with him? Or would she simply have done anything to escape her mother after so many years of fear and mistrust? Would she have run with any man to escape the gentle prison?

“You go on, honey,” her mother said with a vague sort of smile before studying her daughter a little more closely. “Enjoy yourself. I remember just how exciting it is to get yourself ready for something like this.”

Once again, her mother had shown a side of herself that Jenny had always longed for, the side of herself which Jenny had always wanted to be permanent rather than transient. And, once again, Jenny felt guilty for every one of her angry thoughts. Wasn’t it funny how her mother could do a hundred things to make her crazy and then, just once, act normally and have Jenny feel like the worst daughter in the world? It was exhausting and Jenny knew that she had come to the end of her tether as far as her mother was concerned.

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