Lonestar Sanctuary by Colleen Coble

Author:Colleen Coble [Coble, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

14

EVERYTHING SEEMED DIFFERENT BY THE LIGHT OF DAY. BETSY CLUNG TO Allie’s side all morning. Even though she’d slept through the whole upheaval in the night, she seemed to understand that something had changed.

Her little girl sat by the refrigerator with her doll clutched in her hand and watched Allie slice roast beef and homemade bread for lunch. Allie hadn’t seen her daughter have the doll out since they’d come.

“How about if we go out looking for bluebirds after lunch?” she asked Betsy. “We’ll see if Rick will go with us.”

She needed a distraction as badly as Betsy did. The realization that Yo was gone kept ambushing her.

Betsy looked up and nodded, her smile breaking out of the gloom. Allie’s eyes burned as she watched her daughter bend her head until her dark curls touched the golden head of her doll. She wanted so much for her daughter, but it seemed Betsy was living the life of the cinder maid.

The haven they’d found here hadn’t lasted nearly long enough. How could Rick protect them from a phantom who slipped in and out of sight like the fog?

The screen door banged, and Latoya strolled into the kitchen, followed by Fern. The two girls were so different. Latoya came in like she owned the world, while Fern slunk in with her head down and her shoulders slumped. Allie wanted to take Fern by the shoulders and tell her to stand up straight, look the world in the eye, and chart her course.

But had Allie done any better with her own life? She’d had big handicaps to overcome, and once upon a time, she thought she had done a pretty good job of scaling the mountains that had once seemed so daunting. But life had a way of dethroning you when you least expected it.

Allie wanted to be more like Latoya, certain of herself and her power over other people. But maybe the teenager was just better at hiding her fears. Maybe people were all the same inside.

“Girl, my stomach is growling like that lion I heard last night,” Latoya complained.

“Lunch will be ready in a few minutes,” Allie said, snapping out of her reverie and turning back to her task. “Did you get all your chores done?”

“That mare of Betsy’s about chewed the bag up and spit it back out. She’s one hungry mama. Did you go see her this morning, Bets?” Latoya squatted beside Betsy, who just nodded without looking at her. Latoya stood and went to the cabinet, where she began to pull down plates and glasses.

Allie wanted to smile but hid it by turning away to get the mayo out of the refrigerator. A week ago, the teen would have sullenly agreed to set the table only after being asked numerous times.

The pottery clattered on the wood table as Latoya carelessly tossed the dishes into place. “That little colt loves me like his mama,” she said in a conversational tone. “He followed me all over that corral.” She giggled like a five-year-old.

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