The Farmhouse by Elizabeth Bromke

Author:Elizabeth Bromke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: women's fiction, clean romance, sweet romance, contemporary romance
Publisher: Elizabeth Bromke
Published: 2019-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

IT HAD BEEN EXACTLY one day almost down to the hour. One day since she arrived home to a thin, pink sheet. One day since she emergency-packed and threw the kids in the SUV. One day since she overreacted.

Now there she was, back at their home on Pine Tree Lane.

Everything sat exactly how it had the day before with one exception.

A For Sale sign. Shoved deep into the cold, soggy earth next to her mailbox. Courtesy of the bank.

Travis had been in touch with the manager overseeing their “case” before she’d even arrived. All she had to do was sign. Give it up. For good.

There was no other option. Travis made that painfully clear in a pointed text message. The only one she would ever receive from him. All future correspondence, he claimed, could go through his mother. But that was fine, and she was grateful he’d answered at last.

The message had offered a one-word apology, if you could call it that. No justification or explanation. Simply an incomplete sentence about meeting someone else and figuring things out.

She had tapped out a message about the kids, a divorce, and custody plans then quickly deleted it. Instead, she screenshot his words, texted the picture to Becky and asked Becky to send it to Zack Durbin, Esquire. Then, she sent a new response, requesting his new address.

He never replied.

Maggie had to force herself from wondering if he ever would. Part of her would much rather have a blow-out fight than silence... or wondering.

But it was out of her control now. And she had two weeks to empty the house, per the arrangement with the bank.

So there they were: an exhausted Maggie. An irritable Gretchen. Two wound-up pre-teen boys. And one snoring preschooler.

Rhett was negotiating at the garage with Travis’s underlings who, instead of simply changing out the tire, took it upon themselves to rebuild his front end for some reason unknown to everyone. Maggie offered to stay with him to talk some sense into the grease monkeys, but he refused, telling her they would reconnect after she took the kids back to the house to take a break.

Perhaps Rhett needed a break from them, too. After all, he ended up joining her on her errands, acting as something of a translator for Maggie who tried but failed to keep her emotions in check in front of the business-faced bank manager who explained the circumstances of the foreclosure and also revealed that Travis had everything (everything—as in he showed up to sign off on some documents) in order for a smooth transition.

His parting gift, Maggie thought sadly. A smooth transition from having a perfectly good home to almost nothing, save for the oddly preserved farmhouse on the outskirts of town.

But Travis didn’t know about the farmhouse.

Where did he think Maggie and the kids would live? Oh, right. With his mother, who had called Maggie no fewer than a dozen times in the past hour leaving accusatory voicemails and terse texts. It seemed she’d

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