Night Light by Terri Blackstock

Author:Terri Blackstock
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Science Fiction, Fiction, Religion, Suspense, Inspirational, Thriller
ISBN: 9780310257684
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2006-06-27T22:00:00+00:00

Before she could change her mind, she ran downstairs to her father's study, got an envelope, stuffed the letter inside, and sealed it. Affixing a thirty-nine cent stamp -- since that was all she found -- she got on her bike and rode to the post office. She took it inside and threw it down the hole before she could change her mind.

Then she rode home on pure anger, her heart breaking over what she had just done.

thirty-seven

"I BEEN THINKING, AND I DON'T THINK IT'S RIGHT FOR YOU TO take our money." The Brannings had been making their plans for getting to the football field early for the disbursement the next day, but Aaron's blunt statement stopped them cold.

Doug just looked at the boy. He'd been up since before dawn working on daily chores, then hunting for enough food to feed ten people. Then he'd spent three hours working on the garbage mounds at Sandwood Place. He was too tired to deal with this again. "Aaron, stop acting like I'm robbing you. The disbursement money is to help people survive. And since we're feeding and caring for you, we need that money to help pay for expenses."

"But you said yourself you're gonna buy stuff with it."

"I said I was going to invest some of it to make it grow. For instance, I'm going to invest it in the seeds we need to plant in our garden so we can grow more food. I'm going to buy some chickens so we'll have eggs to eat and sell. And we're going to figure out something that the family can make and sell to earn even more money. That's not so we can bask in luxury. It's so we won't have to struggle quite so hard during the winter months."

"So you are gonna take our money?" Joey asked. "All hundred dollars of it?"

"Yes," Doug said. "We've been all through this. You can't get the disbursement without an adult, and that's because it's the adult who is taking care of you."

"What if you find our grandparents? Are you gonna give them the money?"

Kay spoke up. "Of course. We won't spend it for a month after we get it. If we don't find them by then, we will start using it, but we'll give them what we haven't used to take care of you."

Doug knew he'd never make the kids understand. To them, he was exploiting them just like the others wanted to. A hundred bucks seemed like a lot to them, when they hadn't had a handful of pennies since May.

But like it or not, he wasn't going to back down. He needed the money to feed them, and that was the end of that.

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