Through the Ice (CENTRAL STATE HOCKEY #1) by Jaqueline Snowe EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jaqueline Snowe
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Audrey
My favorite part about living on campus was the smell of the
quad. The landscape always had fresh flowers, and the trees were a hundred
years old. My dad and I used to find gardens to explore, where he’d bring a
journal to write down the different plants we saw. I smiled as I walked by
snapdragons. Before my father became sick, he’d always give me twenty
dollars to pick my favorite flower, and we’d plant them in the backyard.
Man, he’d be so proud of me entering my senior year of nursing school.
Whenever life got hard, I’d think about his kind smile and reassuring hugs.
You can do hard things, Auds. With a brain like yours, nothing is
impossible.
So much had changed since he passed. My mom sold our childhood
home and moved a few hours away to heal. My brother Quentin and I both
attended Central State and hung out once a week, but everything was
complicated. I loved my family, but… the familiar weight grew behind my
ribcage, making each breath harder than the last.
No. I shook away the stress. I couldn’t worry about it now. We were
assigned a group project for one of our classes about community health, and
we agreed to meet on a Monday night to begin. That was one thing I was
adamant about: getting all As. I had to for my scholarship, and with the
pressure of finances, I couldn’t lose a penny.
My team agreed to meet on the second floor of the library, and as I
made my way to the stairs, my phone buzzed. Mom.
The same conflicting feelings went to war in my gut: dread and relief.
Every time she called, I was glad she was still alive. But the dread… she
needs more money. My throat closed as I stared at my phone. I could call
her back later, but she’d just keep trying. It’d be better to get it over with
now. “Hi, Mom.”
“I haven’t received any payment from you,” she barked out.
No hellos or how are yous or I missed yous. I swallowed the ball of
emotion and clenched my fist to keep my fingers from shaking. “I sent you
a hundred bucks last week.”
“That didn’t cover what I need.” She coughed, and it sounded gross.
“Are you sick, Mom?” My stomach bottomed out. One of the reasons I
wanted to be a nurse was due to how many family members had gotten sick
while I’d grown up. We spent a lot of time in hospitals with my grandma,
aunt, then dad. I thought nurses were superheroes.
But hearing my mom cough made me go on high alert. “You should call
a doctor.”
“That would require money, Audrey, obviously.”
“You have insurance though. With Dad’s life insurance policy…” I
couldn’t finish the sentence. While I was grieving my father, I had to be the
one in charge of everything. The funeral, the costs, the insurance… my
mom gave up then, and four years later, nothing had changed.
“I still have some copay or something. Look, I know you’re studying or
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