Crush: A YA Romance Collection by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Emmeline drove across the city, thankfully avoiding the bulk of the traffic that normally burdened the roads, following Ginny’s precise directions. She got off the highway and took some surface streets until she turned down the long drive to a farmhouse at the edge of an urban area that threatened to overtake this peaceful area at any moment. There she put the car in park after double checking the address. It would be her luck that she’d walk straight into a stranger’s house and move in!

She unbuckled Millie from her car seat and pulled her out, hearing the crow of the rooster perched on the garage roof. Emmeline wondered what she had gotten herself into. It seemed Ginny had left out a few crucial details. On quick glance, there was more than just a rooster living here, and Emmeline wasn’t sure how to deal with that. She didn’t even have a dog growing up, forget about barnyard animals. Millie babbled and reached for the bird, well beyond her reach, obviously happy with the situation.

Leaving their suitcases and boxes in the car, she made her way up to the house. It sat, looming, built from gray fieldstone and two stories high, with black shutters decorating the windows. A long, wide porch wrapped its way around the front, and a large oak door suddenly swung open.

“You’re here!” an elderly woman greeted them, dressed in jeans splatted with paint on them and a hot pink kerchief in her hair, rubbing her arms in defense against the cold.

Emmeline came closer and introduced herself, but was told to forgo the formalities; Pernella knew exactly who they were, and welcomed them home. She ushered them into the kitchen. Emmeline followed her, taking in what was to be their home, at least for the next little while.

Pernella put on the kettle, and then asked, “So, what do you think?”

“There are goats in the kitchen,” Emmeline blurted out, forgetting her manners. A group of fifteen goats, as well as she could count, were bleating and jumping around a fenced off area at the far end of the kitchen, blocking the back door. Pernella looked at her as if to say, Of course.

“Aren’t they adorable? I’ve been waiting for days for them to arrive!” she cooed, reaching down to pet one of the salt and pepper goats.

“But—but they’re in the kitchen,” Emmeline stammered again, overwhelmed by the feeling that she had made a huge mistake by coming here. She couldn’t raise her kid in a house full of goats. What else was going on in this house that she didn’t know about? She started to calculate how much money she had from Nicholas’s life insurance, plus the little that some of the people from town had given her just to help out, and how long that would last if she needed to immediately rent an apartment.

“It’s too cold for them outside. They’re only three days old. Poor darlings. I don’t want them to freeze to death! As soon

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