Rowan In The Oak Tree by Page Ayla

Author:Page, Ayla [Page, Ayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-17T06:00:00+00:00

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Hours after he’d gone and left her to her tears of solitude, Rowan lay there in the black, watching the shadows of leaves play on her ceiling as the trees behind her house danced in the darkness. The moonlight gave her room a faint blue hue as it crept in through the gap in her curtains. In an attempt to get herself to sleep, Rowan tried to count each individual leaf as its shadow fell on the pale blue backdrop above her bed.

As she began to doze off, Rowan imagined the patterns in the leaves made pictures, and that she had her own secret cinema. She watched as a little girl played in a field with her dog and his ball, and smiled as they ran through the long grass. She could smell the meadow flowers as each was disturbed, and could hear the delight in the little girl’s voice as she and her dog neared the edge of the field, where a man who could only be her father was waiting.

Rowan sat bolt upright in bed, fully awake and fully alert. If the little girl ran free in the meadow with her dog to her father, she could run away with Peyton and be free; run away through the peeling blue gate at the end of the garden and into the woods behind her house. She knew that on the other side of those woods was the place her aunt lived, and beyond that place, her own father.

She grinned with glee, and would have bounded out of bed to pack her most important possessions straight away, had there not been a creaky floorboard right by the side of her bed that would give her away.

Slowly, she lay back down and covered herself up again, pulling the covers up to her chin. She smiled, and for the first time in years, fell into a peaceful sleep filled with dreams of Peyton and her daddy.

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