Sheltered Hearts (A Hidden Hearts Novel Book 2) by Mary Crawford

Author:Mary Crawford [Crawford, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Diversity Ink
Published: 2016-03-28T04:00:00+00:00

I FEEL LIKE I’VE BEEN stranded in the middle of some strange movie scene where everyone has the script except me. After Tristan and Isaac dropped their little bombshell, everyone seems to be treating this little get together like it’s an impromptu family reunion instead of a potentially life-changing, catastrophic event. Although Jessica is a little teary-eyed and pensive, she seems to be in much better spirits than she was earlier in the day. I can’t help but wonder if I’m blowing things out of proportion or if everyone else can’t see the ramifications of what’s just happened.

Hope places her paw over my foot to gain my attention. Glancing at my watch, I realize that it’s been several hours since I’ve taken her out to relieve herself. Catching Isaac’s eye, I show him Hope’s lead and tilt my head toward the door to show him that I’m leaving. He nods and goes back to speaking with Marcus and Walter.

After Hope takes care of her needs, I realize that I’m just not up to socializing so I let myself into the church sanctuary. Although this is a really nice sanctuary with padded pews and a beautifully appointed altar with lush ferns and inlaid wood, I prefer the atmosphere of the quaint little church that we visited yesterday. There is just something about old historic buildings and the stories contained within their walls that speak to me. I sit in the back pew and rest my head on my arms as I tried to marshal my thoughts. Quite literally they are all over the map.

Suddenly, I have new respect for my father. Several years ago, there was a threat issued against all firefighters in our county after a cadet failed to pass all of his training through the Academy. My father is an instructor and was one of several who failed to advance the applicant through the program. He took it personally and issued death threats against the instructors and their families. I remember my father being absolutely terrified to let my mom go to the grocery store or to church alone or with me; he even asked to have a police escort accompany me to school and to after school activities. Of course, he couldn’t tell us what was going on at the time. As a result, we were both alarmed and half convinced he was overblowing the situation. However, now that I’m living through this scenario from the other perspective, I can understand my dad’s hyper vigilance. Right now, I would like to borrow Tristan’s fancy aero-plane and fly Jessica to some artsy European villa somewhere and let her draw, paint and belly dance to her heart’s content and forget the evil in the world.

I don’t even know how I’m going to deal with my real world. Even before this newest development, I had pretty much decided that I wasn’t going to go back to my job with the school district. My unscheduled rescue of Wilma underscored a few things for me.

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