Safe Harbor (The Lake Trilogy, Book 3) by Grant AnnaLisa

Author:Grant, AnnaLisa [Grant, AnnaLisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Truman House
Published: 2013-06-14T00:00:00+00:00

“Who wants to know?” the woman responds. She’s short and protective of her mother and that actually makes me smile. I’m glad to know that Cheryl has someone the way Eliana has Will.

“I’m Will Meyer. I just wanted to ask her a few questions…about my father,” Will says breaking his silence.

It takes her a moment to speak, move, breathe, and I wonder if Will’s name means anything to her. A smile breaks across her face and she motions us to follow her. Up the steps to the house and then across the threshold Will is squeezing my hand so tight that I think he might break it.

“Can I get y’all somethin’ to drink? Water? Lemonade? Sweet tea so sweet it’ll give you a cavity?” she asks with a little laugh.

“Lemonade would be lovely, thank you,” I say. Will nods indicating he’d like the same.

I stand there silently with Will, not sure if there’s anything I can say in this moment to ease his nerves. There are moments he’s actually shaking, and that’s when I wrap my arm around his and hold him tightly to my side.

“I’m sorry for being so rude. I realize I haven’t introduced myself to you. I’m Sarah. Cheryl is my momma,” she says returning to the front room where she left us. She sets a tray of glasses filled with lemonade on the coffee table and sits. We follow her lead and sit next to each other on the couch.

“I’m Layla Weston, Will’s fiancée,” I tell her.

“I know,” she replies. We give her quizzical looks and she fills in the blanks for us. “I knew who you were when I saw you standin’ like dear in headlights out in front of the house. And since you came lookin’ for us, I can only assume that you knew who I was, too.”

“I don’t understand,” Will says. “How could you know who we are?”

“Before you meet Momma, you need to understand a few things. She doesn’t know that I know about her past. She worked real hard my whole life to keep me from knowin’ about my, well, our, father. Once I met him, I knew why.” Sarah hands us our lemonade and sits back in her chair. It’s like she’s been waiting for this moment and she’s relishing in it.

“You met him? When?” Will asks a bit excitedly.

“Four years ago I was sortin’ through Momma’s things, purging what needed to go, sortin’ things into new files. It was a mess up there! Well, I came across an envelope I’d never seen before. It wasn’t sealed so I pulled everything out so I could sort through it like all the rest. Inside were her divorce papers and the settlement agreement from Gregory Meyer. I knew she didn’t want me to see them. I asked a few times when I was a kid about who my daddy was and all she would tell me is that he was a bad man we had to stay away from. I never even knew his name until I found those papers.

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