The Awakening
“She’d only made arrangements to pick her and her son up in the morning outside the grocery store, which Diana did find odd, but then, she hadn’t been able to pull much personal history from the girl.
Diana hadn’t been hungry when she’d taken Laura and her unusually quiet son to the restaurant. In fact, she’d just left the ranch and her husband, Jed, with their eight-month-old baby, Danny. They’d shared a breakfast of ham and eggs before she headed to town to get groceries early, arriving be...fore the store opened and being let in by the clerk. When she’d pushed her shopping cart filled with groceries down the dairy aisle, she’d spotted the young mom with a little boy wearing a look of desperation she’d recognized, all because of what she’d lived through as a child, growing up dirt poor. She couldn’t help overhear the young girl pleading with Mr. Harris, the uptight older man who owned this grocery store and who’d been one of many people who’d shunned Diana when she first returned to North Lakewood, all because of who her mother was.MoreLess
Diana hadn’t been hungry when she’d taken Laura and her unusually quiet son to the restaurant. In fact, she’d just left the ranch and her husband, Jed, with their eight-month-old baby, Danny. They’d shared a breakfast of ham and eggs before she headed to town to get groceries early, arriving be...fore the store opened and being let in by the clerk. When she’d pushed her shopping cart filled with groceries down the dairy aisle, she’d spotted the young mom with a little boy wearing a look of desperation she’d recognized, all because of what she’d lived through as a child, growing up dirt poor. She couldn’t help overhear the young girl pleading with Mr. Harris, the uptight older man who owned this grocery store and who’d been one of many people who’d shunned Diana when she first returned to North Lakewood, all because of who her mother was.MoreLess
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