Swept Away by Jill Sanders

Author:Jill Sanders
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Beach reads
Publisher: Grayton Press
Published: 2016-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

They drove in silence a little longer as she gave him directions. From what he could tell, the place was so far out of the way, they were sure to never be found by the gang.

“I didn’t know your mother was still alive. I guess since you said Wendy had been the one to raise you... I just assumed.”

She felt the pang in her chest that she always felt when she thought about her mother. “She’s been dead to me for most of my life. She spent years in prison for drug and shoplifting charges.”

“My mother spent some time in and out of jail too.” He reached over and took her hand. “I guess neither of them would win mother-of-the-year awards.”

She could tell he was trying to lift the mood, but the fact that she was about to see her mother again, after almost ten years, had her stomach rolling with disgust.

“Turn here.” She pointed to the dirt road where her grandparents’ farm had always been. They passed under the heavy wood sign that hung over the gated area. Rosburn Farms was etched deep in the thick oak.

She remembered seeing it last when she’d spent a few days’ with her mother’s parents when she was eleven. Wendy had wanted her to know the couple. Even though their daughter had turned out bad, Wendy thought they deserved a chance to know their granddaughter.

As her car bumped up the long dirt lane, she thought about her mother. Charity Rosburn, had been a wild child, born of hippy parents who were a lot older and didn’t believe in punishing their child. Charity had grown up getting everything she’d ever wanted. She’d learned early in life about drinking, drugs, and sex. Her parents had run an organic farm just outside of Destin, Florida. They had made their money selling organic honey, eggs, milk, and other products to the tourist during the season.

Willow had heard that both of Charity’s parents had passed away in the last seven years and she knew her mother was now running the farm with her new husband, Ralph.

“It looks like a pretty nice place,” Caleb said, breaking into her thoughts.

“Looks can be deceiving,” she murmured.

As they drove up, the lights flashed across the front porch. The place was dark except for a small gas fireplace on the wide porch. She could see two dark figures huddled together.

When the car stopped, another light flashed on the porch.

“Evening, are you lost?” a deep voice asked.

Willow opened her door and stepped out. She watched as her mother, the spitting image of herself twenty some years from now, stepped off the porch without a word.

She was wearing a long, flowing flowered skirt. Her short dark hair was sprinkled with an occasional silver strand and was tied back away from her face. Her mother’s hands covered her heart as she walked closer to her.

“Willow?” her mother said before embracing her in a hug.

Willow’s entire body stiffened until she felt Caleb’s hands resting on her shoulders.

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