Sadie’s Guarded Harbor (SAFE HAVEN WOMEN’S SHELTER #3) by Danielle M Haas EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Danielle M Haas
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- Genre: contemporary romance
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“Mommy! Turn off the ceiling lights!”
Sadie Pennel couldn’t help but smile at the excitement pouring
off her daughter in waves as she hung the last ornament on the
Christmas tree. A heady warmth burrowed into her chest, and she fought the
urge to pull Amelia into a hug before shutting off the living room lights at
Safe Haven Women’s Shelter.
Not like her rambunctious six-year-old would stop for one second and
let her mama get in a quick cuddle.
“What do you say?” she asked, hovering her hand above the switch.
Mrs. Collins, the owner of the shelter, chuckled. She’d hung her wireframed glasses around her neck with a bright red chain and situated a Santa
hat on the side of her head at a jaunty angle. “She’s shaking like a tick on a
dog’s tail. She just might explode if you don’t get them living room lights
off so we can see this Christmas tree in all its lit-up glory.”
Amelia giggled and bounced on her toes. Her dirty blond pigtails
swayed with the motion. “I’m not a tick.”
Sadie rolled her eyes and grinned. Over the past year, she and her
daughter had spent countless hours at the shelter, volunteering their time
and talents to help women and children in need. Amelia had wrapped the
people they’d come to call family around her finger in no time. “Tick or no
tick, I still need a please.”
“Please, Mama.” Amelia pressed her hands into a prayer pose under her
chin.
Another shelter volunteer, Marie Robinson, stood beside the tree with
her squirming baby on her hip and the plug for the Christmas tree in her
free hand. “You better hurry. Even Nora’s getting anxious.”
“Fine, fine.” Sadie flipped down the switch, drowning the room in
darkness for a few seconds before colorful twinkly lights bathed the room
in a warm glow.
Sadie smiled, a peace she’d searched for her entire youth nestling over
her shoulders like a warm blanket. Green garland was wrapped over the
stair railing with big red bows and homemade paper snowflakes hung from
the ceiling in front of the built-in bookshelves. Red and white knit stockings
waited to be filled above the fireplace, the flickering flames adding to the
festive ambiance.
Amelia squealed and ran to Sadie, wrapping her arms around her. “So
pretty!”
Sadie smoothed her palm down Amelia’s back and fought tears
prickling the corners of her eyes. Most people took moments like this for
granted, but not her. She’d grown up bouncing from run-down homes and
sketchy houses to countless shelters as her mother struggled to stop the
cycle of abuse she’d been caught in most her life.
Things like tree lightings and quiet evenings with hot cocoa and a
roaring fire hadn’t existed. She’d been lucky to go to bed on Christmas
night—or any night for that matter—with a full stomach. When she’d
gotten pregnant with her own daughter, Sadie had vowed to give her more.
To be more.
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