15 Summers Later by RaeAnne Thayne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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The present is a delicate tightrope walk between liberation
and the haunting memories that cling to us. The scent of
freedom is both intoxicating and terrifying, and each step
away from the compound feels like a small victory against
the darkness that threatened to consume us.
—Ghost Lake by Ava Howell Brooks
Madison
“Here, let me get that for you. You shouldn’t be grabbing heavy bags of
food off the shelf without help. You might hurt yourself, honey.”
At the well-meaning but misguided efforts of her seventy-year-old
neighbor, Madison Howell tried not to grind her teeth.
Under other circumstances, she might have thought the old rancher was
being misogynistic, assuming any young woman was too fragile and frail to
heft a fifty-pound bag of dog food onto her cart.
Unfortunately, she knew that wasn’t the case. Calvin Warner simply
thought she couldn’t do it.
How could she blame him, when the majority of her neighbors shared his
sentiments, believing she was forever damaged?
“It’s fine. I’ve got it,” she insisted, taking a firm hold of the bag.
“Now, don’t be stubborn. Let me help you.”
He set his cane aside—yes, he actually had a cane!—and all but shoved
her out of the way.
Short of engaging in a no-holds-barred, Greco-Roman wrestling match
right there in the farm supply store with a curmudgeon who had arthritis
and bad knees, Madi didn’t know what else to do but watch in frustration
while he lifted the bag onto her large platform cart.
“Thank you,” she said as graciously as she could manage. “Now I need
five more bags.”
“Five?” Calvin looked aghast.
“Yes. We have twenty-two dogs right now at the rescue. You don’t need a
new Aussie, do you? We have four from an abandoned litter.”
“No. I’m afraid not. I’m a border collie man myself and I have three of
them. Twenty-two dogs. My word. That must be a lot of work.”
Yes, the work required to care for the animals at the Emerald Creek
Animal Rescue was endless. All twenty-two dogs, ten cats, two llamas,
three potbellied pigs, four goats, two miniature horses and a donkey
required food, attention, medical care, exercise and, unfortunately, waste
cleanup.
Madi didn’t care. She loved the work and adored every one of their
animals. After years of dreaming, planning, struggling, she considered it
something of a miracle that the animal shelter was fully operational now.
For the past three months, Madi had been running full tilt, juggling her
job as a veterinary tech as well as the hours and hours required to organize
her team of volunteers, hire a full-time office assistant and do her part
caring for the animals.
She was finally ready to take a huge leap of faith. In only a few more
weeks, she would be quitting her job as a veterinary technician at the local
clinic so that she could work full-time as the director of the animal rescue.
She tried to ignore the panic that always flickered through her when she
thought of leaping into the unknown.
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