"Would I live here?"
The longing in Willie's voice hurt Jenna's heart.
"No, Willie." Fergus's voice softened. "I'm a single guy, you need a foster home with two parents. But wherever you are, I'll come and get you one day a week, every week, and you'll have to give me your solemn word that you'll follow orders."
"I'll do it, Doc Fergus. I'll follow orders. It'll take me a long time to earn that much money, right?"
"Years, probably. Go to bed now, and we'll discuss it in the morning."
"Years." Willie made it sound like a prayer. "Years." Jenna heard him repeat it over and over as he headed for bed.
Slowly, she got to her feet. She took one hesitant step before Fergus's arms reached out and enfolded her. She murmured, "Two of them are going to be a challenge. It's going to take patience, and humor, and perseverance- -"
"And love. Lot's and lots of love." Fergus whispered, "Let's go to bed now, Jenna. We'll discuss it in the morning."
His kiss was a promise, and she returned it.
—The End—
About The Author
Bobby Hutchinson was born in a small town in interior British Columbia. Her father was an underground coal miner, her mother a housewife, and both were storytellers. Learning to read was the most significant event in her early life.
She married young and had three sons. Her middle son was deaf, and he taught her patience. She divorced and worked at various odd jobs, directing traffic around construction sites, day caring challenged children, selling fabric by the pound at a remnant store.
She mortgaged her house and bought the store, took her sewing machine to work, and began to sew a dress a day. The dresses sold. The fabric didn’t, so she hired four seamstresses and turned the store into a handmade clothing boutique.
After twelve successful years, she sold the business and decided to run a marathon. Training was a huge bore, so she made up a story as she ran, about Pheiddipedes, the first marathoner. She copied it down and sent it to the Chatelaine short story contest, won first prize, finished the Vancouver marathon, and became a writer. It was a hell of a lot easier than running.
She married again and divorced again, writing all the while, mostly romances, (which she obviously needs to learn a lot about.)
She decided she needed something to do in the morning in her spare time, so she opened her first B&B, Blue Collar, in Vancouver, B.C. After five successful years, she moved home to the small coal-mining town of Sparwood, where she ran the reincarnated version of the Blue Collar until last summer, when she closed it and took up writing again full time.
She's currently working on three or four or eight more books. She has six enchanting grandchildren. She lives alone, apart from guests and two rabbits, which belong to her grandkids but somehow ended up living with her. She meditates, bikes, walks, reads incessantly, and writes compulsively. One of her greatest pleasures is hearing from readers of her books.
She likes a quote by Dolly Parton: “Decide who you are, and then do it on purpose.”
For a complete list of all of Bobby’s books, please visit www.bobbyhutchinson.ca/books.
Copyright
Mercury Rising
Copyright © 2016 by Bobby Hutchinson
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