Love Songs and Lullabies by Amy Vastine

Author:Amy Vastine [Vastine, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-11T16:59:40+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

THE LAST TIME Sawyer had seen his mother, he was four years old. He’d gone to bed like always, figuring in the morning she would be there to make him breakfast and read him his favorite stories about wild horses that no one could break.

Only that next morning, his mom had not been in the kitchen cooking up eggs and bacon. She hadn’t been in the laundry room, folding his dad’s flannel shirts and jeans. She hadn’t been out in the barn, feeding the horses or mucking the stalls. She was gone and she never came back.

“Sawyer, tell them to let her go,” Faith said again. “She’s our mother.”

Heath would have none of it. “Don’t you dare let her go,” he warned the guard pinning her on the floor. “Mitch, help me get Piper out of here.”

Mitch and Heath stood on either side of her and led her out, leaving Sawyer standing in the center of the room with a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach. Faith got away from the bodyguard holding her and ran over to their mother. She pushed the guard away and helped the woman to her feet.

“We’ll take her to Sawyer’s dressing room,” Faith said, putting an arm around her shoulders.

Sawyer’s feet were cemented to the ground. He couldn’t follow as they left the room with Dean. The small group of fans there for the meet and greet cowered in a corner. Lana tried to apologize to them, but it was clear she was at a complete loss for what to do beyond that.

Hunter came over and placed a hand on Sawyer’s shoulder. “Come on, man. Let’s go to your dressing room.” He tugged on Sawyer’s shirtsleeve.

“How did this happen? Where in the world did she come from and how did she get back here?” Sawyer asked as they walked down the hall.

“One of the dancers was walking around the outside of the arena and heard some woman arguing with security, telling them she was your mom. Everybody assumed it was a fan trying to get backstage. When word got to your sister, she thought she should check it out because they were talking about arresting the woman if she didn’t leave. She knew Heath would be ticked if there was any more bad press, so she thought confronting the lady herself would end it without having to call the cops. Next thing I know, Faith’s running around back here, looking for Dean like there was some sort of emergency. I guess she had him get your mom a backstage pass.”

Sawyer stopped. He couldn’t go into his dressing room. Not with that woman in there. How could Faith have let her back here? He shook his head. His sister had always held out hope their mom would come back. He’d thought she’d finally let that go when Gretchen didn’t show up at their father’s funeral. Sawyer had assumed he would never see her again. How he wished he had been right.

“Tell my sister to come out here.

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