Royal's Wildfire & Lance's Stars (Black Hills) by A.C. Wilson

Author:A.C. Wilson [Wilson, A.C.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-02-24T05:00:00+00:00

If you have liked reading Ainsley and Royal’s story, please stay tuned as they have asked for their own novel. Their journey of trust and love doesn’t end here. ~A.C. Wilson

Black Hills Series:

Lance’s

Stars

A Companion Novella

to the

Black Hills Series

A.C. Wilson

CHAPTER ONE

The vast stretches of interstate had a strange effect on his nerves. Lance had gone five hundred miles, leaving Illinois before it was even light outside this morning. The sunrise had been less remarkable than he might have imagined. His final destination was Hot Springs, South Dakota. He had heard a great deal about the Black Hills country and with some minor inner debate, he had decided to pack up and move. It wasn’t as if there was anything holding him to Illinois now. If anything, his world was completely different and it would never be the same again.

He looked to the wooden wedge that held the folded American flag. It was probably silly on his part, but that single piece of stitched and embroidered fabric made him feel less alone. Feeling his throat tighten at the memory of receiving the flag upon his brother’s interment, Lance couldn’t believe it was a handful of years since that day. It seemed like yesterday. It was so vivid in its watercolor portrait. It was late spring and the trees were just leafing out with their green buds. Birds were singing too brightly for the occasion. The grass at the cemetery was soft and smelled sweet. Everything about that day was more alive than it had a right to be without his brother’s soul in the world.

The flag draped coffin was enough to burst the dam inside and even if he hadn’t already been crying, Lance would have drowned in loneliness. His only sibling was lying feet from him but the chasm was too great to reach across. His older brother, Terrell Harper believed in living the American dream and for that dream, he had enlisted in the United States Army. At first it had seemed like a lark, a way to see the world without going on his own dime. Terrell was like that. He could talk a peacock out of his plumage and make the bird think it was a smart investment. Lance envied that trait. It was not one he had inherited.

Lance was obliged to sit in the front row of chairs with friends behind him. No one sat to the right or left. He was the only one present for his family. He blamed his drug addicted, con artist parents for being too damaged to know their children even existed. He didn’t blame Terrell’s girlfriend; Andy was battling her own demons as well as carrying their child. That bit of news had been a shock to the system. A letter had been with Terrell’s personal effects and being as it was addressed to Lance, he opened it. Neat handwriting slithered across the lined paper as Lance learned he was to be an uncle and as proud as his brother was to have a family, their own parents must never know of the child.

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