Where Healing Blooms by Vannetta Chapman

Author:Vannetta Chapman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2014-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Danny waited as long as he could to check on Mary Ann the next day. He’d been tempted to stop by in the morning, when he’d taken Shadow on his early morning walk, but he’d resisted. Then as he worked trimming the bushes and flowers bordering his house, he thought about going over. Perhaps they were both resting though, and he didn’t want to disturb that. Finally in the afternoon, after he’d rewritten the same page three times, he called it a day and gave in to the desires of his heart.

He didn’t want to be a pest, but he needed to assure himself that Mary Ann was healing and that Emma was coping with the latest emergency. She’d appeared quite shaken the day before. Thinking Shadow might be able to bring a smile to her face, Danny called out to him, and the dog obediently fell in step behind him.

The dog’s training was coming along well, better than Danny had expected. As they walked toward Emma’s, Shadow emitted an occasional whine—no doubt wanting to chase the birds rimming the small pond or take off after the rabbit that hopped across their path. Shadow fairly quivered in anticipation of a good romp, but he stayed at Danny’s heel. Perhaps on the way back he’d allow him a good run.

He found Emma and Mary Ann in the garden. No big surprise there. Mary Ann was wearing the big black boot, which stuck out from under her dark-blue dress. She looked good, her color back and her customary smile adorning the wrinkles on her face. She reminded Danny of his own mother, and he understood firsthand how important she was to Emma.

Emma, on the other hand, looked as if she had spent the day chasing after one of her grandchildren.

“I was successful keeping Mamm indoors and resting for the morning, but by afternoon she was a force to be reckoned with.”

“She does love her garden.”

“I can hear you both,” Mary Ann called from her bench, where she sat with a shawl around her shoulders. “Surely I can’t run into trouble by sitting in the garden. The flowers are beginning to bloom, and I want to enjoy their color and breathe in their scent.”

Emma was feeding the roses with the old coffee grounds she kept for just that purpose. Danny knelt beside her, and they worked the old grounds into the dirt with a hand trowel.

“Trying to stick close to Mary Ann?” he asked in a low voice.

“Why do you say that?”

“You’ve practically dug up that rosebush. I thought the idea was to use the tool thingy to revive it, not kill it.”

Danny knew all about gardening, aerating the ground, and applying fertilizer. But he enjoyed the look Emma gave him whenever he played like he didn’t.

“I am trying to stay close and keep an eye on her. Though the bump on her head has gone down nicely, she’s still quite wobbly on her feet.”

“How’s the ankle?”

Emma stole a peek at Mary Ann, then refocused on the rosebush.

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