Fragile Sanctuary (SPARROW FALLS #1) by Catherine Cowles EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Catherine Cowles
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RHODES
AGE TWENTY-SEVEN
My SUV bumped along the gravel road, jarring my spine as I hit an
especially painful divot. I added regrading the driveway to my mental list.
What was one more thing when the list was already at least two hundred
tasks long?
I forced myself to loosen my grip on the steering wheel, my knuckles
starting to ache from the force of my hold. As I shifted my hands, I
glimpsed the damp patches my palms had left behind. The little smears of
wetness had anger flaring to life somewhere deep.
I was grateful for the emotion. It was a heck of a lot better than the fear
and anxiety that had been swirling around me for weeks as I packed up my
cottage in town. I wouldn’t fail at this. Not again.
Taking a deep breath, I lowered my speed to better navigate the
potholes. If I focused on the road and nothing else, maybe the panic
couldn’t get me. At least, not this time.
I made the trek into a game. How steady could I keep my vehicle on this
beat-to-smithereens road? I did a pretty damn good job, but the road came
to an end eventually, opening to a makeshift parking area of sorts.
I slowed to a stop but still didn’t look up.
Instead, I focused on my
gratitude. The incredible chocolate chip scone I’d had for breakfast. How
the sunrise had painted the mountains in a rainbow of colors. The text I’d
gotten from Fallon telling me I had this. The fact that I was breathing.
I switched my focus to those breaths. In for three, out for three. The
counting kept them even, a math equation saving me from a visionblackening panic attack.
In. Two. Three.
I lifted my focus a few inches.
Out. Two. Three.
My gaze caught on a massive flower bed. It was once a riot of color, full
of penstemons, iris, and yarrow. Now, it was all just…dead.
Like my mom. My dad. Emilia. And me, in a way. The me I’d been then
had died right along with them, thanks to old wiring in an even older house.
A home that had been so full of life and love once but had been left halfburned for the past fourteen years.
Now, finally, I was ready to change that. To bring it back to life. And
maybe, just maybe, I’d find some of the pieces of me that had died that
night along the way.
I opened my SUV door and slid out. My boot-clad feet hit the gravel,
and I forced my gaze up, up, up. There it was.
My mouth and throat went bone-dry. I tried to swallow against it, but
everything just seemed to stick. My eyes burned, and I started counting.
In. Two. Three.
Out. Two. Three.
I’d already made it longer than last time. Thirty seconds into my last
attempt, a panic attack had grabbed hold—one so vicious I’d needed days to
recover.
But that was a year ago. A lot had changed in a year. I was braver.
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