The Inheritance by Heidi Hostetter

Author:Heidi Hostetter
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-9961337-1-5
Publisher: Heidi Hostetter

It was well after midnight when Lydia finally turned into the driveway of the Jensen house. The trip across the country had not gone well. The cooler of food she packed in New Jersey and meant to last the entire trip, had made it beyond Chicago. Everything she packed was wrong somehow – yogurt without spoons, dry protein bars without bottled water, and sandwiches wrapped in tin foil that looked dodgy by the time she got to them. Three full days of nothing but fast food and soda had given her a dull greasy headache, and only the hope of a hot shower and a clean bed had pushed her past Utah.

She pulled her car to a stop near the studio but was so exhausted that she had to sit for a moment fighting waves of nausea; it felt like the car was still moving. Her head throbbed, her shoulders ached, and her legs cramped from almost three thousand miles of almost continuous driving. Getting here was one of the hardest things she’d ever done. The first night she had slept in her car had been so cold she hadn’t slept at all, and even the second night, wrapped in a sleeping bag hastily bought from a discount store the very next day, she had slept fitfully, dreaming of fugitives breaking into her car, stealing the few things she had left.

She had kept the key to the studio that Steven had given her and hoped no one had changed the locks.

Overhead a night breeze pushed aside the clouds to reveal a bright spring moon turning everything silver in its light. The crushed oyster shells in the driveway sparkled like pirate’s treasure and the house, light against the night sky, was full of possibility. It really was a beautiful house, especially in the moonlight. And what a project that would be, to restore it, to breathe life back into it.

Lydia snorted, a short puff of disbelief. She must be more tired than she though, delirious almost, to think that she and her sisters could work on anything together.

With no other thought than she would finally be lying flat to sleep, Lydia scooped the key from the zippered pocket of her purse and opened the door. Pulling the cot and the sleeping bag from the back of her car, she dragged both toward the guest house and went inside.

Vaguely she noticed that someone had cleaned inside. Charlie had said it needed to be cleaned, and it had been. So someone must be living here, probably her sisters.

At this point, Lydia didn’t care if they threw her out the next morning as long as she was allowed to sleep now. Following a short hallway, she opened a door at random and found a narrow twin bed already made up.

She fell upon it fully clothed and was instantly asleep.

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