River's End (River's End Series, #1) by Davis Leanne

Author:Davis, Leanne [Davis, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leanne Davis
Published: 2014-06-25T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Mother’s Day dawned a beautiful sunny day, with the highs predicted in the eighties. The valley and land were lush with new green leaves and grasses growing tall and full. The pine trees sparkled in the morning dew and the air smelled spicy, of fresh dirt and pines, a scent Erin never quite grew used to. It felt so invigorating and pure, almost as if she were breathing an exotic perfume, and not simply the country air.

She dreaded today and knew it would be hard. She woke early as usual. Sundays and Mondays were her days off at the coffee stand, but her regular, three-thirty wake up usually intruded onto her days off all the same. She watched the sunrise change the sky into pearly colors of peach and orange. It shadowed the mountains in dark, inky lines as the day slowly began to bloom from behind them. Stretching slowly, like a cat, the warm morning rays drew minute-by-minute closer to where she sat on the steps of her trailer, watching.

It was about eight o’clock when she spotted movement at the ranch house. She stood up when she saw all of the Rydell brothers walking along the porch, trailed by the kids. They were all dressed up: each wearing slacks, a buttoned shirt, and clean, polished cowboy boots. Jack even wore a tie. She stared from her trailer steps, still clad in sweat pants and a baggy sweatshirt. Where were they all going?

Sunday. She supposed they could be going to church, although she didn’t know if they ever went. Perhaps today, being Mother’s Day, was why they chose to attend. She almost called out, but refrained. It wasn’t her place. Besides, if they did happen to invite her, she had nothing appropriate to wear.

She watched them piling into two trucks and pulling out. The dust ballooned around them, and slowly settled back. Dust seemed to be everywhere lately, and Ben informed her that it would last until next October. That soon, Ben predicted, the temperatures would become so hot and uncomfortable, she’d wish for overcast days without the hot, scorching sun. She, however, doubted she would ever wish for that. And if Ben had ever spent the months of September through July in Seattle, she had no doubt he’d agree.

She felt dejected today. Much more so than usual. Although she never felt good about herself, what with squatting on the Rydell land, wearing a bikini for work at a coffee stand, still hopelessly illiterate and stupid, while accepting all her material needs as charity; today, she felt much worse than she usually did.

She knew, of course. Duh. It was the first Mother’s Day that should have technically meant nothing to her. She had no mother and could ignore Mother’s Day just as easily as she spent her entire life ignoring Father’s Day.

She dropped her head onto her drawn-up knees, feeling too depressed for words. Though her mother certainly wasn’t the best, she was still her mother. Lorna Poletti was only sixteen when she had Chance, and eighteen when she had Erin.

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