If I had decided not to stay, I wouldn’t have found out what love was. I wouldn’t have found my mom. There were so many experiences, both good and bad, that I would have missed out on. Everything that happened in the past year had changed me for the better. And looking at my family and our new home, I knew that there was hope. Not just for me, but also for humanity.
Not the end. Just the beginning.
Epilogue
It was hard to believe that we'd already been in our new home for six months. Home. After all that happened in Safe Haven, I wasn't sure if such a place could ever truly exist in our world. But this was nothing like Safe Haven. Serenity was humanity's future. Even now, we were continuing to grow, not just with the arrival of the first two babies in our community but also with refugees.
We were always careful about who we welcomed onto our little piece of paradise and so far, we'd managed to only find the best of what humanity had left to offer. Not that we didn't think we'd have to face challenges from the opposite side. This was precisely why we had so many rules.
We observed from a far for as long as we could, before we invited anyone new to join us. Our community was now forty-two survivors strong. We weren't a big community, which was good. We only had so much space and we needed a lot of the land to grow as much of our own food as possible. We were already planning to expand our community out to other islands. In the meantime, my genius husband, began helping to construct our first house boats. We had three such homes built on the water. They were all small, housing only one or two people each. They didn't have running water or electricity like the mansion, but they at least were a private place to rest and sleep.
Thankfully, Jack had built our cabin on land. I'm not sure I would have enjoyed the jostling motion of the waves every day. Jack had just finished building our home, nestled in the woods. It was twice as big as the home we'd shared in Safe Haven. The main living area had a wonderful woodburning stove, that heat our home so much better than the fireplace in our original cabin. Jack built two bedrooms on either side of the living room. The master bedroom had gorgeous hand carved furnitire that Jack had painstakingly taken his time with. He'd finally been able to unleash his full carpentry potential here, and he was in heaven. I loved seeing him in his element.
Above the living room was the loft that was seperated into two sides by a divider shelving unit. Two ladders on each side led up to the loft. Jack had asked me before he'd begun construction on our new home, what I thought about inviting Kaia and Charlie to live with us. I loved how thoughtful Jack was. I'd been worried about them. I think they felt that with April and Billy welcoming their baby boy, that they were going to be left behind.
We didn't say anything to them until the cabin was finished and then we invited them to see it. The way their faces lit up, helped me know, that they knew, they were apart of our family forever. Kaia couldn't stop crying as she checked out her side of the loft and the special furnite that jack had made for her, along with the special quilt I'd knitted her. It wasn't the same as the quilt her grandmother made. Nothing could replace that. But I was able to include names and dates from the original quilt, as best as I could remember them.
I sat in my new home, knitting a little outfit for my newphew, when Jack walked in holding the giggling boy.
"He didn't let his parents sleep last night, so I told them we'd take him for the afternoon."
I put my knitting down and rushed over to steal Jarron from his uncle. He buried his face in my shoulder as I settled into the rocking chair again. He was the spitting image of his father, down to the curly black locks.
When April first told us the name, we were completely confused. We'd never heard that name before and couldn't imagine where they came up with it. April had been crying too many happy tears to explain it to us, so it was Billy who told us that each letter represented a member of their families that they lost. Jarron suited him. His name represented our past, but he respresented our future.
It was after his birth, and the birth of our niece Molly, that I knew that we truly could hope for a future here. Despite all the struggles April had later in her pregnancy, her delivery went smoothly.
I'd been so nervous to hold Jarron when he was born. It wasn't like I had a lot of experience with babies. I was young when my first newphew was born and so afraid to touch him that I didn't. But April wasn't letting me get away with that this time.She pushed him into my arms only an hour after he was born, and I fell in love.
A month later, I told Jack that I was no longer afraid of getting prenant. We decided to just let nature take its course. Three months ago, my period was late and just the other day we heard our baby's heartbeat for the first time.
Jack was ecstatic. He'd been busy working away in our child's nursery but refused to let me in to see it until it was finshed. I was busy, knitting clothes of every colour yarn I could find. It turns out, crafting stores were the last thing people raided. We had a whole storage house filled to the brim, with material and yarn. Enough to last Kaia and I a lifetime.
"You look good like that," Jack smiled, as Jarron slowly began to close his eyes.
"Covered in baby drool?" I teased.
"Hopeful." I smiled back at him. I was hopeful. So much good had happend in the past year and half that, event though there was loss and devastation, I couldn't help but feel hopeful.
"I guess I finally see what you saw all along," I replied.
"What's that?"
"That we can learn to live again."
About The Author
Becky Poirier
Becky's love of stories began with her father, who shared with her his love of creating characters in unique worlds. She's a mother of four who enjoys hiking, baking, belly dancing, reading and of course, writing. She's a social work student who believes that creative writing is a great way to deal with every day stresses of life. Seeking Hope is the fifth book that she has released and the second book of the Seeking Saga.
Books In This Series
The Seeking Saga
The Seeking Saga takes place in the not too distant future, when wars, natural disasters and famine have ravaged the world. But none of those things dealt more of a blow than the man-made plague that sweapt through the world, stealing everything that made a person human, and turning them into something more beast like, monstrous.
The survivors of this plague must not only fight against the monsters that hunt them at night, but also the worst that's left of humanity.
Seeking Daylight follows Paige as she fights to find a reason to go on after the devasting loss of her little sister.
Seeking Hope follows Summer as she struggles to convince her older sister to trust again, so that they can finally have a place to call home again, a sanctuary from the devastation of the world. But things are not always as safe as they seem.
Seeking Daylight
Seeking Hope
The New Destiny
Books By This Author
Seeking Daylight
The First Book in the Seeking Saga.
The world has been descending into chaos for several decades. War, famine, and natural disasters had ravaged the planet. But none of them caused as much devastation as that outbreak that changed the course of humanity forever. The disease changed the host, stripping them of their human identity, turning them into something monstrous, demonic even. Paige has lived most of her life in isolation. Her only priority was to keep her sister alive. Now she's failed at that. With no reason to keep fighting against the inevitable, she's decided to go out in a blaze of glory, taking as many of the demons as she can, along with her, to the grave.Only one thing stands in her way. Seth is the stranger, who for some reason is hell bent on convincing Paige there's a reason to keep fighting. She'll play along for now, until she can steal some supplies and exact her revenge.
The New Destiny
From the world of The Seeking Saga
Above ground, the world has descended into chaos. Wars have torn ap
art our world. Limited resources have pushed humanity to near extinction. If that wasn't bad enough, then the waring factions each created their own biological weapons which have now merged into a super virus, changing most humans into something monstrous.
Thankfully, a few brilliant scientists saw this coming. They designed a facility to protect humanity and a plan for us to start over.
I've lived my whole life underground, preparing for the day when myself, and my small team will take off for a new world. One not ravaged by poison and disease, and start over. In order to give humanity a fighting chance, we've been paired off with our best potential mate. Only I hate my mate, Gabriel. What I hate most is how my body betrays me with its attraction to his arrogant self. Then there's my best friend, Peter. I've never found him physically attractive, but lately my mind has been drawn to what might have been.
My name is Destiny Hart. I'm about to help restart the human race. No pressure.
The Cleansing
Emma lives in the human world, but she's not human. She's better than human. At least that's what she's always been taught. As part of the next evolution of the human race, she's supposed to help take care of the human plague. There's just one problem with that. She doesn't believe what she's been taught. Living in a community of telepaths makes it even more important to hide her secret. That is, until she meets a man from her past who shows her that she's not alone. But is it too late to undo the damage she's already caused?
Confusion
Two thousand years have passed since humanity nearly caused its own extinction. After several smaller near extinction events, humans are finally beginning to flourish again. This is thanks in part to evoluctionary changes that spawned the Soul Mate pairings. Match Makers are able to detect these connections between mates early in life.
Solara Naveen has always known that Michael was her mate. It's been a long time coming, but finally they will be joined together. Only one thing stands in her way. The visions of the mysterious man are disturbing, mostly because of how they don't disturb her at all. She shouldn't feel attracted to anyone but her Soul Mate, but this new man has her feeling desires she didn't know she was capable of. Will she follow her heart, or what she's always known.
Seeking Hope: Book 2 in the Seeking Saga Page 37
