Courageous Love: A Christian Romance Novel (The Hawaii Love Series, #1) by Kelsey MacBride

Author:Kelsey MacBride [MacBride, Kelsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian, Romance, contemporary, religious, inspirational, suspense, women's
Publisher: New Prosperity Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2015-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

All the memories of her years at Trinity Ranch came flooding back to her. The green pasture in front of her conjured up images of her and her siblings rolling around with each other on the lawn. She saw her younger self help her father as a calf gave birth. She remembered spending quiet mornings heading out across the lawn to fill the feeding troughs for all the cattle.

Trinity Ranch sat on the outskirts of the Pupukea-Paumalu Forest and encompassed 11,000 acres. The massive expanse of land touched three climate zones including the ocean, the rain forest, and the valley. On average, the ranch herded 6,000 to 8,000 head of cattle, which made it the largest on Oahu and second largest on all of the Hawaiian Islands. Michelle’s father spent years ensuring that the ranch was environmentally responsible. He had implemented rotational grazing protocols that gave the cattle the maximum nutritional opportunity while minimizing the negative impact on the land. Unfortunately, the drought of recent years had made the sensitive grazing technique incredibly more expensive to operate.

Regardless of the harsh environmental conditions, the ranch still took Michelle’s breath away. As she stood on the crest of the hill, she looked down across the pasture to the white farmhouse sitting at the base of the forest. Acres of fields were laid out like heavenly blankets, all glistening with dew from the afternoon drizzle. Michelle looked over the farmhouse to the mountains behind it and then looked to her side, to the other volcanic peaks dotting the island landscape. She closed her eyes and breathed the fresh ranch air in, letting the salty surf air mingle with the pasture scents filling her senses.

Images and memories pressed hard on her heart as she envisioned her father’s serious face. Never one for taking it easy or making light, Michelle’s father rarely laughed. Memories of her father were all ones of worry and seriousness. He spent so much time concerned about everything on the ranch. Her heart grew heavy as she thought about the relationship she would have liked to have with her father, one of laughter, closeness and love—and the childhood relationship she actually had. She thought of the tension between her and her father and the way she felt so neglected by him. His first love was the ranch, and as a child, Michelle thought he loved the farm more than he loved her. That was one of the main reasons she fell so hard for Justin when he paid attention to her.

Michelle had been starved of attention and never got it from her father. When Justin came along and gave Michelle everything she had been craving, she grabbed onto it for dear life, no matter what the cost.

“Is this my Michelle?” Ano, an older ranch hand approached Kana and Michelle. “Oh my gosh, it IS you!” Ano had been like an uncle to Michelle. He had been on the farm since Michelle was born and had watched her grow up.

“Kana, good to see you.

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