Honeysuckle Summer by Sherryl Woods EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Sherryl Woods
- Language: English
- Genre: Women’s Friendship Fiction
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Raylene stood in the kitchen doorway on a day that was surprisingly cool for
the first of June. She stared in dismay at the backyard where Sarah’s children,
Tommy and Libby, had been playing not two minutes before. Now only twoyear-old Libby was in sight. She was standing next to the open gate of the
fenced-in yard.
Tommy’s absence immediately set off panic in Raylene. “Libby,” she
called. “Sweetie, come here. Where’s Tommy?”
Toddling to Raylene, her big eyes filled with tears, Libby pointed in the
direction of the street.
“Come inside,” Raylene commanded. She could only deal with one
missing child at a time. Raylene scooped up Libby, then raced toward the
front door and flung it open to peer up and down the block. Tommy was
nowhere in sight. Barely five, he couldn’t have gone too far in the time she’d
been in the kitchen, she assured herself. She’d turned away just long enough
to put a few cookies on a plate and pour three glasses of lemonade. Two
minutes, maybe three.
Normally she would have brought the kids inside when the sitter left to run
an errand, but it had been such a beautiful day, she’d decided to let them
continue playing in the yard. What had she been thinking? She’d been
terrified ever since she’d moved in with Sarah and her family that something
like this would happen on her watch. She’d taken every precaution she could
think of to avoid it. Now, just one slip and all her worst fears were coming
true.
Opening the door, she shouted at the top of her lungs. “Tommy!” She
managed to inch over the threshold, but just barely. The panic she’d felt upon
discovering Tommy was gone multiplied a thousandfold as she tried to force
herself to take the next step and then the next. It took every bit of willpower
she possessed not to scramble right back inside. She clutched Libby so tightly
that the little girl whimpered in protest.
“Sorry, baby,” Raylene soothed.
Again, she shouted for Tommy, but there was no response. Frustration
warred with terror.
Tommy knew the rules. He knew, even if he didn’t understand, that she
couldn’t leave the house to go chasing after him. He was also an adventurous
preschooler for whom rules meant very little. He couldn’t possibly
comprehend that the thought of leaving the safe haven of their home terrified
her. Sometimes it was beyond her understanding, too.
Ever since Raylene had run from her abusive husband, she’d grown
increasingly housebound, scared of everything beyond the boundaries of
these walls. It didn’t seem to matter that Paul Hammond was safely locked
behind bars, at least for a few more months. She couldn’t make herself leave
the house. If anything, she’d been getting worse, not better.
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