She tried to smile but her chin trembled and sobs shook her frame. “I knew at that moment... I’d come home... to my Birdie.”
Birdie stood and folded her arms around the woman who’d raised her. Choked up, she begged, “Please don’t cry, Aunt Patty.” She sniffed and pulled one of the darned handkerchiefs she’d finally gotten used to from a pocket and blew her nose.
Tad stood beside Birdie with one arm around her, the other on the older woman’s shoulder. “Birdie’s right. This is a happy time—one to celebrate.”
“Aunt Patty, Tad and my family have been my life these past thirty years. Only one thing could have made me happier—to have you here with us.
“Welcome home, Aunt Patty!”
The End
Other Books by Linda LaRoque
Contemporary Westerns
Forever Faithful
Investment of the Heart
When the Ocotillo Bloom
Futuristic
Born in Ice
Time Travel
The Turquoise Legacy
My Heart Will Find Yours
and
Flames on the Sky
A Way Back
Desires of the Heart
A Marshal of Her Own
A Love of Her Own
Birdie’s Nest
Linda’s Bio
Linda LaRoque is a Texas girl, but the first time she got on a horse, it tossed her in the road dislocating her right shoulder. Forty years passed before she got on another, but it was older, slower, and she was wiser. Plus, her students looked on and it was important to save face.
A retired teacher who loves West Texas, its flora and fauna, and its people, Linda’s stories paint pictures of life, love, and learning set against the raw landscape of ranches and rural communities in Texas and the Midwest. She is a member of RWA, her local chapter of HOTRWA, NTRWA and Texas Mountain Trail Writers.
Linda writes contemporary western romances, time travel romances and futuristic romances.
Visit Linda at these locations.
http://www.lindalaroqueauthor.blogspot.com
www.lindalaroque.com
https://www.facebook.com/linda.laroque
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/649259.Linda_LaRoque
Linda’s Amazon Page
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Title Page
Blurb
Copyright
Chapter One
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Epilogue
Other Books by Linda LaRoque
Linda’s Bio