Where Azaleas Bloom by Sherryl Woods EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Sherryl Woods
- Language: English
- Genre: Women’s Divorce Fiction
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Lynn Morrow was at her wit’s end. Her tiny desk tucked into a corner of the
kitchen was piled high with bills and her checkbook balance was a stunningly
low $24.35. Not since college had she seen such a scary balance.
The refrigerator held a half-empty carton of milk, five eggs and some
rapidly wilting lettuce. There was a can of diced tomatoes in the cupboard,
along with a box of spaghetti, a few spoonfuls of peanut butter left in a jar
and maybe a bowlful of Cheerios in the bottom of the box. That, too,
reminded her of college. But it was one thing to scrape by at nineteen, and
quite another to try to do it in her forties with kids to care for.
“Mom, I’m starving,” Jeremy announced when he walked in the door from
school. It was the standard cry of her ten-year-old. “What can I have for a
snack?”
Lexie, who was right on his heels, took one look at her mother, apparently
interpreted her dire expression for the near-panic Lynn was feeling, and
turned on her brother. “You don’t need food. You need sensitivity training.”
Tears sprang to Lynn’s eyes as Jeremy bolted from the room. Lately,
Alexis, who was only fourteen, had spent way too much time trying to protect
her mother. Ever since the divorce proceedings had been initiated, Lynn had
been struggling to make ends meet. She and Ed were still in court wrangling
over everything from custody of the kids to support. The temporary order in
place barely kept her and the kids above water and, by the end of the month,
she was scraping bottom financially, even with the part-time job she’d
managed to find at her neighbor Raylene’s boutique on Serenity’s Main
Street
One of these days she supposed she’d thank Ed for providing this
unexpected life challenge, but she really, really wasn’t there yet. She was
spitting mad, not because he’d left, but because of the upheaval he’d left in
his wake.
She’d worked hard to keep her worries from spilling over onto the kids,
but Lexie was a smart girl. She’d quickly figured out what was going on.
Sometimes her overnight transformation from carefree teen into world-weary
adult nearly broke Lynn’s heart. Lexie should be paying attention to her
grades, maybe having her first crush on a boy, not trying to be her mother’s
savior.
Now, with her brother gone in an indignant huff, Lexie came over to give
Lynn a hug. She seemed to know instinctively just when Lynn was in
desperate need of one.
“Dad’s late with the check again, isn’t he? How bad is it?” Lexie asked.
Lynn tried to reassure her. “We’re going to be fine, sweetie. I don’t want
you to worry about this.”
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