Second Best (Twin Series Book 1) by Dallacey E Green

Author:Dallacey E Green [Green, Dallacey E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9:Helen’s Returns

When they got home Cassie cooked a simple meal of chicken, biscuits, and mashed potatoes. Soon after they ate Nicholas rode out to check on the cattle, leaving her in their home alone with her puppy.

Cassie bundled Goldie in her arms and rocked her as she sang an old folk song she heard her mother sing many times. It was a pretty song of promise and love. It soothed her to sing this song today, as she gazed down upon her pretty puppy and watched her drift into a blissful rest.

Carefully she placed her down and headed to the front window, where Nicholas positioned the tree. Picking up the plaid ribbons she bought Cassie began to wrap them around the tree, just as she saw her mother do every year. How strange it was that she was in her own home now. Cassie never thought she would have a home of her own. Cassie remembered a conversation she shared with her parents a long time ago.

"One day you will be decorating your home for Christmas." Cassie's mother smiled at her as she passed her daughter a velvet stocking to hang by the fireplace.

"I don't want a home of my own. I want to stay here with you and Daddy forever." Cassie’s gaze was etched with concern. It scared her, this talk of her mother about growing up and leaving them. Cassie could never imagine what it would be like to leave the only home she knew.

She could never imagine what it would be like for someone to actually look at her and regardless of what they saw, still want her.

Cassie's mother looked over her shoulder to where her father sat reading his daily newspaper. "Oscar, did you hear what your daughter said?"

Mr. Baker placed his newspaper on his lap and scratched his head. "What did you say, darling?"

"Your daughter said she wants to live with us forever." Mrs. Baker shook her head, as though it was the saddest statement she had ever heard.

"What's wrong with that?" Cassie's father winked her way and she tried to suppress a giggle. He was so kind, her father.

"Oscar, Cassie is fifteen years old!" her mother pointed out, sounding exasperated.

"Yes, she is. My baby girl is growing up fast," he said easily, far too easily for his wife.

"Well I married you when I was seventeen," Mrs. Baker pointed out.

Mr. Baker scratched his head again. "You married me when you did, but only because I nearly dragged you to the altar."

"Oscar!" Mrs. Baker looked shocked.

"Now come Isabel, you know it is true. I basically tricked you to be there on our wedding day, or else you might have chickened out."

Cassie's mother was blushing now. "I just needed a bit of coaxing is all." Her mother lifted her chin and began to hang the stockings once more.

"And when the time comes I believe your daughter will need the same. Cassie's more like you than you realize. One day she will fall in love with a man as irresistible as I am, Isabel.

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